Whos got your number
Testimony showed credit card TJ Carpenter is gone in a day, $ 2000 Shopping Spree in Illinois.Carpenter, a computer specialist for the Corpus Christi Convention and Visitors Bureau, it has never been Illinois.
Carpenter first remark, there was a problem when he tried to buy an online credit report and their credit card was declined.
“I knew something was wrong because I do not spend more than what I have here,” said Carpenter.
Bank official told Carpenter, he was the victim of identity theft. He had his credit card for a purchase Marshall and his account number was stolen. It was for some time, TJ Maxx, the memory of the parent company, the intruder had announced in its computer system and access to credit and debit card data of customers in Germany.
Carpenter is one of more than 600 people in Corpus Christi, reported identity theft crimes in 2006. Identity theft is a crime where someone uses your personal information, such as a driver’s license number, credit card number or social insurance number for its performance.
In a press release February by the Federal Trade Commission, entitled “Consumer Fraud Complaint and Identity Theft Data,” the FTC series Corpus Christi 29 of the nation metropolitan areas in identity theft.
“This is a serious matter when we know that only 114 Rank Corpus Christi within the population,” said Alan Bligh, President and CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Corpus Christi. “And only lists the number of case. There are hundreds, if not thousands still out there, which are not reported. “
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