I was almost the victim of identity theft yesterday.
My cell Phone rang with a private number. Out of pure curiousity, I answered to a man who claimed to be with the national department of security. He proceeded to inform me that my name appeared on his red flag list at 6 am that morning, along with 14,000 other names. He said it's illegal for solicitors to contact you when you're on a no call list and that he would gladly help me in putting my name/phone on there. Then he said that he would also secure my bank accounts so that I was the only person allowed to make transactions on it. Of course my first reaction was to hang up on him. But he just called back. "This is not a sales call, I'm going to secure your accounts like this department has done for 62.5 million others." Now, he wanted to know the name of my bank. I told him if all this information is out there on me, surely you can just look it up. That made him MAD! Ma'am, this is information requested by my department to insure your safety. Now, whats the name of your bank? I lied, but he believed me and then proceeded to ask me the routing number. I told him to call me right back, that I had to go outside for my checkbook. He said he would, I called the PD, but he never called back, at least not yet. . . I'm prepared for when/if he does, though!!
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