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I'm afraid of identity theft
    #5460387 - 03/30/06 04:11 PM (18 years, 3 days ago)

Shit scares me. I burn all my receipts. I just burned all my old checks when my new checks got here. I made the mistake of throwing away my old drivers license without cutting it in half first. I told the bank to stop sending me paper statements.

Anyone else paranoid? This shit fucks with me allll the time and I really don't like it. Is all of this just hella paranoid? Does any of it have any merit?

What paper trails do I need to be afraid of.


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Re: I'm afraid of identity theft [Re: freddurgan]
    #5460391 - 03/30/06 04:12 PM (18 years, 3 days ago)

PM your SS# and I'll make sure you're safe.


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Re: I'm afraid of identity theft [Re: freddurgan]
    #5460394 - 03/30/06 04:13 PM (18 years, 3 days ago)

Better safe than sorry I suppose. I don't get quite that paranoid, but yes sometimes I worry about my sensitive info.


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Re: I'm afraid of identity theft [Re: freddurgan]
    #5460421 - 03/30/06 04:19 PM (18 years, 3 days ago)

get a $20 shredder from staples and lay off the fuckin herb

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Re: I'm afraid of identity theft [Re: freddurgan]
    #5460526 - 03/30/06 04:36 PM (18 years, 3 days ago)

It worries me too, at times.

In the name of such caution, I've cut up credit cards I recieve in the mail, with a "call to activate" sticker on them, and disposed of them.

Where it really concerns me, is during online-activity.

I used to frequent an 'underground', criminalistic, illegalistic message board [many years ago], called "shadowcrew" or something along those lines. Man, that place was hardcore. It was primarily a 'novelty-ID' site, where one can buy entire wallets, for uh, 'novelty' purposes. But the site had much more subdivisions than that. There were the 'vendors' and of course, buyers.
There was one forum for fake certificates and degrees, one for pharmacueticals and various drugs, and one for bidding on stolen credit cards, merchandise, identities, etc, and other forums I don't remember.

It was a very intimidating yet twistedly fascinating place. I learned alot just reading all the discussions that took place there. I learned that there are actual people that somehow have access to banks of identities and can "dump" such info onto "CC-dumps". CC stands for credit card, and the "dump" is what they referred to as the black strip we all have on our credit cards. So of course there were also vendors selling PVC-cards, weird laser-printing machines and such.

There were alot of elaborate discussions that took place regarding strategies to implement when using these illegal cards at stores. Sometimes people would have to buy a CC, complete with info, except for the 'DOB' [date of birth], or something similar along those lines. So there were some interesting discussions among these criminal-minded folks, about how to 'socially engineer' such awkward situations when confronted with security questions after capital-intensive purchases.

One thing I found interesting is that there were quite a few [large enough to notice] foriegners involved in such 'commerce' from Russia, Czech, and other Eastern Bloc countries.

Unsurprisingly, the site had to close its registration many times for security reasons. And of course, they eventually became infiltrated by the law enforcement and was shut down.


...But that doesn't mean there still aren't criminals out there who still ruin innocent lives.

And why was I ever registered in such a site, one may ask? It was a member [I forget the name, it was a one-time contact and long ago] from this site that referred me to it - who mentioned he actually purchased an entire wallet from there. For novelty purposes, of course.


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