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Identity Theft

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buckiprof;1666790; said:
No offense to your dad, but leaving valuables in your vehicle, even if said valuables are not in plain sight or on a "compartment", is not a wise thing to do....that was something that my dad told me many years ago before identity theft was rampant.
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If you're going to a gym without lockers it isn't a bad idea at all. More wallets are stolen from gyms than cars.

Now, if you have the option of locking it up, that probably was not a good decision.
 
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DontHateOState;1666816; said:
If you're going to a gym without lockers it isn't a bad idea at all. More wallets are stolen from gyms than cars.

Now, if you have the option of locking it up, that probably was not a good decision.
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I may be old, but I can't remember when I was at a gym that didn't have lockers. In my 45 years, every gym I have been in has lockers.

But assuming that there are no lockers, still take your wallet with you. Whatever you are doing at the gym, your stuff (including wallet) can be next to you. That is, if on any machine, stuff could be on floor by you.

If I ever find myself in a gym with no lockers, my wallet will still be with me by whatever machines I am using. For me, it is better to have a little inconvenience of carrying my wallet to possibly many different machines than the inconvenience of dealing with identity theft.

But it sounds as if this gym did have lockers. Investing in a lock to use on these lockers would be wise for Merih and his father.
 
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Merih;1666684; said:
Yeah, I placed an alert with the Federal Trade Commission that my SS number might have been compromised.

I did some self investigating at the stores they went to, and it seems as though they might have made an instore pickup scheduled for tomorrow :lol:

Police will be there.
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Sorry to hear about all this. It must suck. But would be awesome if they made the instore pick up and get busted.
 
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Some of the worst cases of identity theft seen to date:

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So we moved in August and changed our address with USPS and with our companies, etc. My wife later changed jobs. I was looking for the W2 from her old company and we came to find out that they sent it to the old address. It is bad enough that you have to watch everything these days, but to have a company send your peronal information to the wrong address is just ridiculous. How the fuck does this happen??? I feel like her old company should pay for some sort of identity protection service for at least a year for their screw up.
 
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buckeyebri said:
So we moved in August and changed our address with USPS and with our companies, etc. My wife later changed jobs. I was looking for the W2 from her old company and we came to find out that they sent it to the old address. It is bad enough that you have to watch everything these days, but to have a company send your peronal information to the wrong address is just ridiculous. How the fuck does this happen??? I feel like her old company should pay for some sort of identity protection service for at least a year for their screw up.
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If you filed a change of address with the USPS your mail should follow for a minimum of six months. If you moved to another property inside the same zip the change of address will probably follow for 18 months based on how much mail you typically received at your old address (it's at the postmasters' discretion). In either case, once the change order has expired unforwarded mail will be returned to sender, usually after 15 business days. A W-2 should not be delivered to your old address as long as the change was effective, it will either find you (eventually) or be returned to the sender.

Based on your August change date my guess is the follow order is expired and the W-2 is sitting at your old local post office. You may be able to determine the status of your old follow order online, and extended it another six months (sometimes for a fee of a dollar or two).
 
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So, my wife got a hold of her old company to learned that the W2 had been returned. Funny thing is they never called her to get the new address to send it out again. Talk about inept.

Interestingly my wife's new company and old company both use ADP. My wife was able to use her login and get her info from her old company. Seems odd that one company got her the W2 correctly and the other didn't utilizing the same accounting system.
 
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buckeyebri said:
Interestingly my wife's new company and old company both use ADP. My wife was able to use her login and get her info from her old company. Seems odd that one company got her the W2 correctly and the other didn't utilizing the same accounting system.
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There's a thing in the data processing community called GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). It doesn't matter that both companies use the same system, it's how they interface and input to it. The knuckleheads at the old company still had to ensure the new address she gave them was input to the system.
 
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MililaniBuckeye said:
There's a thing in the data processing community called GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). It doesn't matter that both companies use the same system, it's how they interface and input to it. The knuckleheads at the old company still had to ensure the new address she gave them was input to the system.
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Yeah they also distributed her 401K to her and took taxes out of it without asking, so now a rollover is pretty moot....luckily it is not a tremendous amount to deal with
 
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