There are some incredible things people get away with in this world. Actually, it's not that incredible--I bet it's one of those things that happens very often but no one ever hears about it. Imagine if, like every other time in your life, you happened to lose your wallet, or even get it stolen. You cancel all your credit cards, notify the bank, get a new driver's license, and a social insurance card. You get a new wallet, and you think the matter is settled. Then, one day, you get a phone call from a ski rental place to tell you that a snowboard you rented was damaged. You've never been snowboarding in your life. A front-page article on the Vancouver Sun this weekend recounted in detail exactly such an occurance. It is the most frustrating, and allegedly unsolvable, crime ever: identity theft. An 18 year-old woman had her purse stolen one night, and for the past two years she's been fighting someone who has been claiming to be her. This 'someone' has all her legitimate government ID, so for every car crash and every counterfeit cheque transaction, the finger points to her...except, she has committed none of it. And the reason why it's unsolvable by the police?
Sgt. Ken Athans, head of the Vancouver police Identity Theft Task Force, was not familiar with McAteer's file. That's because his new and highly successful task force targets large groups of people who work together across the Lower Mainland to pull off organized and very lucrative identity theft. [...] He has sympathy for McAteer and others in her situation, adding that in an ideal world there would be enough manpower and cooperation between police and outside agencies to solve a case like her's. [...] "We probably have people pointing fingers at each other saying it's your jurisdiction ... It's a huge problem. Resources are always going to be a problem. And we need to find a way to empower somebody to do something about that. That's sort of the shadow that identity criminals are able to operate in," he said. "It's really tough for her to go to the top of the pile ... There are a lot of people with stories like her's, and we hate to hear them."First of all, in an ideal world, there wouldn't be such dishonest people. Secondly, in an ideal world, there would be no need for criminal justice systems or laws, for that matter. And thirdly, if not even that, there wouldn't be such an incompetent 'Theft Task Force' whose head-hancho stands and publicly claims that there are people "pointing fingers at each other saying it's your jurisdiction" and does just that. (Well, at least he is being honest.)
But, the true reprimand shouldn't be aimed at the police for their incompetence, but this bitch who goes around thinking she can get away with identity theft, although she clearly has and is. Whoever you are, wherever you are, you do NOT deserve to live in civil society, to reap the benefits of a safe, peaceful community. People like you who don't have common decency should never be amongst those of us who actually do. Go f%^k yourself.
3 comments:
Your italian it's quite good! :))
Io sono un'impiegata commerciale... che ama scrivere ma non può vivere di quello. (anceh perchè non mi sento così brava)...
Torna quando vuoi!
See ya
OrsaLè
@ orsalè: haha grazie a mille. Sto provando. Scriverà i parti del mio blog in italiano, spero che sarà comprensibile. Aver pazienza!
No Italian here, but I did want to mention that I was a victim of identity theft.
Yeah, it sucks. They think it happened when I bought my cellphone a couple years ago. In forming the contract, I had to give all my personal information. They figure that's when someone who worked at the store probably got all my info. They had my driver's license number, my address, my home phone number, my credit card number.
Not only did they create a second cellphone account (the kind that you can activate on the internet), they bought something for $400+ in Kamloops on my credit card (like an over-the-phone-here's-my-credit-card-number purchase, you know). When they actually tried to withdraw cash on the card at a credit union, also in Kamloops, the banker was suspicious, did a credit check, and called me. Sure enough of course, I was never in Kamloops, never spent $400, and never created a second cellphone account.
I had to cancel my credit card, alert the Canadian credit bureaus. A fraud alert was put on my file, and now whenever I apply for any sort of credit anywhere (even like in-store financing, for example), that alert will pop up and prevent all activity on my credit file until I verify it from my home phone. Pain in the ass.
Apparently these jackasses work in teams, spread out all over the place. They take someone's identity here and use it there, somewhere else, different city. They use it as long as they can, until people catch on and cancel everything (maybe only a couple days), throw it away, and move on to a new identity.
Remember the good 'ol days when all people stole were T.V.s and jewelry? Now they're stealing us!
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