Someone did, in fact, have my social security number and stuff (and parents' address) and use it to open a charge account with Neiman Marcus. It should be in the process of being cleared up already, but STILL.

I understand the pain, Jesse. I got a call from Nordstrom's on Saturday. A woman had a driver's license with my name/address and her picture as well as my SS#. She tried to charge stuff to my Nordstrom's account, but they thought it was suspicious. Called me at home and ended up arresting the woman.

V. freaky and disconcerting. I've been chatting with the police off and on since Saturday about the case. They're charging her with a felony and they may need me to appear at the hearing, but don't know yet.

Jeesh, glad they caught your identuty stealer, too, ChiKat!

ChiKat, did you ever figure out how she got your info?

It's so crazy, ChiKat! Apparently they were going to go to the address where "my" identity thief was having stuff shipped, but could someone really be that stupid? We'll see. I hope I get to talk to the cops! So far, I've just had a postal inspector.

I am having a momentary school-related I RULE moment, so I thought I'd better share. I was all fucked up trying to make this data say stuff it just wasn't saying, and I stumbled across really good backup for excluding some of it, and now it's saying all kinds of fun things!

Also I just told two women to shut up in the computer lab, and one of them was all, "The sign says no eating or drinking, not no talking! This isn't the library!" But they are quiet now. Awesome.

That's a creepy random coincidence, with the two attempted identity thefts being caught by alert store personnel (or do I mean personal?). And the stores both have names starting with N.

Okay, that part's less creepy, more random.

Do you know what triggered the store people to doublecheck?

Do you know what triggered the store people to doublecheck?

"Unusual activity," apparently. Lord knows what that means -- the $800 in stuff? The fact that they were delivering to an address that's never been attached to my name? Es mysterioso.

I've been called once about unusual activity that was actually me. Not sure what the activity was, though. That's lost in the mists of time.

The time someone did jack my identity, I was the one who found out (because Friday night my checking account was empty), and even after I presented the cops with their delivery address, they didn't care.

I did get the money back, at least.

ChiKat, did you ever figure out how she got your info?

Not yet, the detectives are still investigating. My purse was stolen about 3 years ago and they think it may stem from that.

Do you know what triggered the store people to doublecheck?

It was unusual activity for me, too. She didn't have my Nordie's card, but had the cashier pull it up using her/my driver's license and my SS#. The cashier saw that I had NO activity on my card, and now here "I" was trying to buy 2 watches for over $3400. The cashier alerted the store's fraud dept. who called me at home and that set the ball rolling.

To bring this full circle, the cops found a business card in the chick's purse with my SS# written on the back of it. The business card was from someone who worked at Neiman Marcus.

Taking Too Much Candy to the extreme:

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d they may need me to appear at the hearing, but don't know yet.

probably waiting to see if she pleads guilty. Otherwise you have to show up and say "yes, I am me and I have been me for ___ years"

To bring this full circle, the cops found a business card in the chick's purse with my SS# written on the back of it. The business card was from someone who worked at Neiman Marcus.

ooooooh! Maybe you can work this into free stuff!