There Goes The Neighbourhood

In this case it was the neighbourhood that funded a glamorous lifestyle - even if they didn’t know it. This is a case of identity theft taken to a whole new extreme with multiple neighbours of a Philadelphia couple being defrauded of $100,000. The couple had keys to neighbours flats and post boxes and used them to take all kinds of information, including bank account details as well as installing spy-ware on their computers.

How didn’t the neighbours realize? Well, it seems that the couple had opened bank accounts and credit cards in their neighbours names - in this case they used a fake driving license. (So you wouldn’t know until you tried to open an acocunt or a credit card and the credit check fails.) Try a Google image search for driving licenses and you will be amazed at how many there are… people need to realise the importance of the information they hold and more to the point the consequences of what can happen if it falls into the wrong hands. So… if you happen to have just past your driving test, and you want to tell your friends about it - then tell them, but please don’t post a  picture of your license on your social networking site!

May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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