Comment on If You’re Going To Commit $175K In ID Theft, Don’t Do It Under Your Real Name

Chris Morran, The Consumerist
Wed, 07/23/2014 - 8:01am

If You’re Going To Commit $175K In ID Theft, Don’t Do It Under Your Real Name

(Enokson)One would think that a scammer clever enough to steal a victim’s personal data and trick some of the nation’s largest banks into helping her steal $175,000 would have the forethought to hide her own identity. But that idea apparently didn’t occur to a North Carolina who also posted helpful photos of herself online to aid police in their search. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports on a local man whose Charles Schwab investment account was drained of $175,000 by ID thieves who somehow gained access to his personal info and his phone number. Knowing that Schwab would call the customer to confirm the authenticity of two huge transfers — $123,000 to a Chase branch in Atlanta, and $52,000 to a Wells Fargo outlet in California — the suspects apparently had all the victim’s incoming calls forwarded to an untraceable cellphone.

 

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