An employee of a medical office where the victim received services obtained the victim’s name and social security number from the victim’s medical file. With this information, the thief allegedly was able to obtain lines of credit in the victim’s name worth $10,000, rent an apartment, obtain utility service, and earned income in the victim’s name. Prior to this the victim’s name was “spotless”.
The Victim first learned that she was victim of Credit Identity theft when she began receiving telephone calls from lenders and collection agencies demanding payment of numerous past-due credit accounts that she had not opened. As reported by the victim, her bank refused to refinance her home mortgage because she was a bad credit risk, and the Inter
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