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So, I've been hearing a lot the last couple of years about this whole Identity Theft thing. Not a big deal, right? I don't give out my personal information, I shred old documents, I keep myself generally safe, right? Surely I'm not at risk.

Oh, no. That's not the case. I have been deluding myself. Apparently I am at risk. And half the time, it'll be someone I know. Someone I thought I could trust. Someone I let in to my house is likely to be the culprit in an identity theft case against me half the time.

Are you f'ucking kidding me? Great, now I have to pat down my parents and sisters (and that one's baby. She's six months old, but you never know what that unscrupulous ***** of a sister of mine will hide in a car seat). I have to search my mother in law, and my wife's siblings, our friends and their kids. And don't even get me started on the little ******* from down the street that mows my lawn once in a while. If I see him so much as glance at my mailbox wrong, I am sooo calling the cops.

I used to live in such a cocooned world. I didn't have a care at all when it came to this identity theft thing. So what has happened recently to scare the sh;t out of me where friends and family are concerned? How could I go from care free and gay to paranoid and edgy?

McGruff, the crime dog. He has set me on a path of vigilance. He has both informed and educated me to the dangers that lurk behind every innocuous house visit and every seemingly innocent knock at the door. You may tilt your head to the side, raise an eyebrow and utter a barely audible "huh?" at my new found dread of visitors, but I assure you, its a very real threat, and the razor wire I am installing is perfectly justified.

After all, if it wasn't a serious problem, they wouldn't have chosen to send the message with a cartoon dog.

You need to buy more duct tape.

Oh Moe, people around here have been trying to be you for years!

Wow, you landlord can't enter your apartment here without notifying you first. Ever, for any non-emergency reason.

What we need is new laws holding Credit Card Companines et al liable and responsible for identity theft, not the victims. It's department stores and banks that give out credit in fraudulent identity. They should be liable and responsible for cleaning up their mistakes, not individual consumer victims. It's too bad the left and Democratic Party sucks, and can't come up with issues like this. It comes down to Business A was defrauded by Criminal B. Business A wants to hold Consumer Victim C responsible. It's outrageous.

It's as idiotic as if I were to defraud a sucker by selling them your house while you were on vacation and the Court and Law were to hold that your house now belonged to someone else. No, Business A who bought you're house was ripped off, not you.

Yeah they never notified us prior. Management has since changed and so far no problems that we know of. (except the Super still sucks).

But there is no real true Deed filed. The Bank is libelously smearing an innocent person's reputation by making fraudulent claims on their credit report. It's the Bank's responsibility to ensure that the identity of the person they are dealing with is not fraudulent. If that means taking finger prints, video identification, retina scans, or whatever, it's still the Bank's responsibility. Every person who is a victim of identity theft should be able to sue the Bank, the Department store, or whomever allowed your identity to be fraudulently used for damages if they persist in ruining an innocent person's reputation. And as Claimant, they also have the burden of establishing proof. That'd one helluva an incentive for Business to put a huge dent in identity theft, probably cutting it by 90% in the first year alone.

That's fairly standard law in most parts I've ever heard of. It would be fairly easy to have him arrested for B&E I would assume.