Identity stolen rising crime poses a threat
More than a prison-style phone line during the reception hall entrance to the park beside the police station of the Golden Gate Park, Kimo Crossman was told once again to wait.
Crossman, 36 years a consultant in programming, it is a victim of one of the fastest growing crime in America: identity theft. Someone has discovered enough information about him - even Social Security and his driver’s license, points - to $ 10000 before taxes on its behalf in the last four months. Some have been made in its existing credit card, others were in accounts opened by the thief.
On Wednesday 9 o’clock in the morning, Crossman waited in a quiet Police Patrolman David Rio, a report on the records of the other side of a glass security barrier.
But Rio Crossman said that when he wanted to discuss his case, moreover, he would have had to visit a sheet of fraud, south of the police station on Bryant Street.
In two days.
Feeling exhausted and sick - he was in the emergency room the night before for a chronic medical problem - Crossman left the station, étreignant its report. He knew that for other working hours and wait. On average, victims of identity theft increased from 175 hours over two years to try to resume his normal life, according to a study by San Diego’s Rights Clearinghouse privacy and the California Public Interest Research Group.
As he discovered in December, he was a victim, Crossman has already spent about 50 hours waiting, with respect and with the help of mobile phones on different accounts of exposing and reporting of fraud to all three agencies Credit reports: Trans Union, Equifax and Experian. It is determined, press.
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