Ok. :thumbsup: You just paid the equivalent of Samoli pirates as the easier path to take. That, of course, just encourages them to board your boat again.
That's about the jist of it.
Ok. :thumbsup: You just paid the equivalent of Samoli pirates as the easier path to take. That, of course, just encourages them to board your boat again.
The problem is this. By the time it trickles back down to you, several years have expired
YOU don't have to prove the debt is not yours
It turned out that it was a cell phone account opened in my name in 1998, in a city that I never lived in.
We are fairly helpless when it comes to defending our credit and I don't see a workable solution. I check my credit report every year but what else can I do to protect myself?
Why don't the Feds crackdown on all this nonsense?
Seems like every few months I read, or hear about, a major breach of security by some credit processing company, where tens of thousands of persons have had their credit card info "stolen" and off we go. I use credit cards for internet purchases on a pretty regular basis, but I always wonder if I am being foolish or worse. I try to deal with known companies, but the actual processing takes place who knows where? Maybe India, or the Philippines or ?? Scary business, living in the modern world.
Seems like every few months I read, or hear about, a major breach of security by some credit processing company, where tens of thousands of persons have had their credit card info "stolen" and off we go. I use credit cards for internet purchases on a pretty regular basis, but I always wonder if I am being foolish or worse. I try to deal with known companies, but the actual processing takes place who knows where? Maybe India, or the Philippines or ?? Scary business, living in the modern world.