identity theft victim here......(rant)

United States
March 21, 2011 1:57am CST
As you guys have noticed I have not been active here on mylot in the past two months, why? it is because I got school and now I also have a part-time job at a Subway restaurant. I have saved up enough to buy my own laptop but a few days ago when I went to my checking account I found out that there is only $4 left in my account. Yep it has been hacked and they used the money to some kind of money order thing. after I found about it I immediately went to the bank and talk to a banker to get it fixed. They are getting me a new debit card and it will come in the next two weeks and they also talked to the main ppeople, I mean the people who work inside the bank itself to refund my money and maybe take care of what has happened. After that I went online to equifax to get a fraud reported to the authorities but for some reason equifax doesn't want to work it says that there is something missing on the application that I have entered which they require. I did that for like 5x already and it still says the same thing. I even made sure that I have filled every blank that they had and it still didn't work so I gave up on that. IT SUCKS!!! Because now I am not sure if those who have stolen money in my name could be using my identity for opening credit cards and stuff like that. that is identity theft. they could be taking my social security stuff like that. Have a nice day.....smile And now the sale for the laptop is over and is now out of stock so I guess I'll have to wait for another sale I guess. And from now on I'll never use credit/debit card. I'll just use cash. Thank you.
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• India
21 Mar 11
yeah man..... i have a lot to say to you... first let me clarify i dont mean this thing to the employees or workers of the banks. the owners of the bankers are really very cruel as per my opinion, just look how much they will earn from the interest itself, and if some one doesn't have the money to pay interest or the main money , they just drag him to the road, even after knowing the fact that, the interest he paid till now was much more than the actual amount he took on loan.. so under this kind of industry , when a person works, it becomes very difficult for him, to maintain himself unaffected by the industries negative energy, some or the other day he falls for it. there might be a some people who doesn't fall for it too, hats off for them.. but the people who fall for them, you know start deceiving people and all those stuff
• United States
21 Mar 11
I never had any of those you mentioned. My bank is pretty good they really don't charge me anything unless i do something wrong like overdraft, stuff like that then I'll have to pay them. I only have a free checking account by the way. I don't even have a savings account, maybe i'll just open one this week so I know where my money goes to. I also don't have a credit card. Yeah I guess they do those things you mentioned in your country and probably in many places worldwide.
@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
21 Mar 11
i'm so sorry to hear about what is happening to your bank account... i'm glad that you have fixed it now with your bank... that's why i am very careful whenever i use my debit/credit card and online banking... hope everything will be sorted out for you soon... take care and have a nice day...