Cloned

Just had a nice letter informing me that HM Revenue & Customs have just stopped another person trying to claim tax credits using my personal details. I have done all the phone calls warning everyone, well everyone but the bank. I think the bank will be a headache when i try to use my bank cards. Now all i have to do is wait for the normal insurance and loan claims this clone will no doubt set me up for.

Until this clone is busted by the police i think perhaps admin should check i have a small birthmark on my right buttock when i log in.

Oh my god!

I just thought, if my clone gets married i will have two mother inlaws.

up to a month or two ago i was getting mobile phone bills from various companys chasing money going back three yrs.

all companys were contacted saying that this person has never lived at this address,the police were involved but it still carried on --even the baliffs were caled in to collect until the police intervened-intotal the bills total ran into £745  it shows how easy it is to use someone else's address.

I am sorry to read that you're having this problem, Dennis. But you're keeping a very good sense of humor about it!

My sister got a call from her bank last week saying that someone had used her ATM card number to try to wipe out her account. Not the card itself mind you, as she had that in her purse. Which begs the question, how did someone get the number?

I was watching something on the news just a day or two later and was shocked to see that when you use your ATM as a debt card, the scanners they use actually stores the card information! So any unscrupulous employee with a little bit of ingenuity can figure out how to get your information. Scary!

Thanks Diana for the info....helps us answer a few of our own questions that have come up at home here...hmmmm....you mentioned the word : unscrupulous......sometimes I think it;'s a prerequisite to employment at some places.....or that's the way it seems somedays. I think ethics is becoming more scarce and unscrupulous & predatory have become a bit too common place to suit me....

am I off base on this assessment ?  I look for the positive, goodness in people but it's becoming more difficult to find it...but I keep looking as I know it's out there....just disguised a bit more than it was in earlier years.

I think it is done for one of two reasons. Either to gain entry to a country, or pure criminal profit.

Both leave an innocent party in a world of hurt for more than few years, in some cases for a lifetime.

Two of Dennis, whaaaaaat? lol

Hope things work out okay Dennis.