{uZa}Underdog wrote:
My protection... my Glock 40 S&W! J/K, I check my credit union account nearly everyday and our CU has fraud protection as a perk also. I try to be careful since my PayPal account was hacked several years ago.
I shred everything that has our name on it too.
Sorry to hear that Doggie. I use paypal only for donations, but I do do (do do) a lot of online shopping and only sites I trust and go over all my transaction. And working at the bank makes it a lot easier to do that.
{uZa}Amok wrote:
I am not too worried about identity theft. What I think is more annoying is the fact that some people pretent to be someone else, i.e. by posting pictures that are not them, or pictures that are not theirs!
Unfortunately that is another area where people can be taken advantaged of....we have so much online interaction...facebook...twitter..gaming. And the ones usually hurt are the kind hearted, caring and honest ones.
{uZa}Renegade wrote:
Back on topic. My sisters bank actually let someone set up a cheque account using a fake ID which then was linked to her savings account. They cleaned her out. You should not even be able to draw out of a savings account using cheques. Even though it was the banks glaring fault, it took her weeks to get her money back. How did they get your Paypal account UD ?
Sorry to hear about your sister Ren. It does happen. We have had a couple cases like over the years. If we have a customer come in that is from a different branch and lost their debit card...visa ...and has Identification.....we drill them with questions about themselves...where they work....what they do..their last few transactions...if they can't answer...we tell them to go to their own branch. They sure have changed how we set up new accounts....signatures and Identification is not enough anymore..
Do you all use chip cards? How are your bank cards...credit cards set up?
We are slowly switching over...but i am sure someone has figured out to hack those already
