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Originally Posted by housekeeper
Boy, sorry to hear that Bill, and damn Cleo, your SS #. I've been pretty lucky I guess, but my spending is pretty targeted, and I have a pocket full of plastic. I have good cards though, I do get contacted at times when my spending doesn't fit my profile, Amex is a good card like that.
ID theft is a royal bitch, but we're going to be seeing a lot more of it I suspect. Now they don't require a signature if it is a purchase of $20 or under, at least here in NY.
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Other than having my purse stolen many years ago all my CC thefts have been after using a CC someplace local. I'm pretty sure my SS was stolen at the hospital that I went as a few workers were arrested there for ID theft and the thefts were in the thousands. Even it happened to my CPA's wife. They use them to file a fake return and get a huge amount back.