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Did I just have my identity stolen?

post #1 of 13
4/20/11 at 10:21pm
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Okay. There's a decent chance that I've had my identity stolen. About a month ago I started a few dates with a girl over OKCupid. She lives in Omaha, I live in Sioux Falls, but I'm taking classes in Omaha.

Anyway, the "relationship" goes bust because she's acting like a psycho. Before that, there were lots of superficial compliments mixed in with rather strange, spiteful remarks. When I'm back home, the texts change tone to how wonderful I am. When I meet her again, it swings back to strange, bizarre insecurities that are riddled with negativity.

All right, she's a loser. Probably borderline personality disorder if that's all it was. Yet there were plenty of red flags in hindsight that suggest she's not what she appears to be:

- Before "dumping" me, she mentioned that she was in financial deep water because her mother stole her identity and put her thousands of dollars in debt. Her extended family apparently owns her apartment complex and wants to keep the matter hushed.
- She asked me for my full name on the second date. This really isn't so bad until you consider point #1.
- She also asked for info re: family members and then complained that I wasn't giving her enough information. Why she was complaining about this when we were talking about why a long-distance relationship couldn't work...well...
- There's the matter of us meeting her mutual "gay friend" who was apparently testing me to see how good of a match I was. Yeah, sure. And maybe said friend is an accomplice. Shortly after eating their pasta, I get a terrible case of food poisoning.

Am I just being paranoid about insecure little girls? Or should I make some reports just in case?

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post #2 of 13
4/20/11 at 11:28pm

eh, if your worried, go down to the cop shop and see if her name pops up anywhere. OK Cupid might have some info if there have been complaints about her via that as well.

 

probably better to be safe then sorry

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post #3 of 13
4/21/11 at 1:01am

I don't know how things exactly work over there, but unless you were ridiculously specific in what you told her, there doesn't seem to be enough for her to pull anything off.

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post #4 of 13
4/21/11 at 7:19am

I don't know if you had your identity stolen - probably not - but this would make a cool intro to a horror movie.  I'm picturing a scene where you're puking spaghetti into the kitchen sink as your cell phone keeps ringing.

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post #5 of 13
4/21/11 at 11:30am

Did anyone place a large pod near you while you slept?

 

Invasion.jpg

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post #6 of 13
4/21/11 at 12:46pm

Sounds like a wonderful little adventure, but you can't steal someone's identity just by knowing their full name. Otherwise, everyone would have their identity stolen. 

 

And I always ask a girl's middle name on the first date. 

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post #7 of 13
4/21/11 at 1:17pm
If her family owns an apartment complex, she might have access to a credit checking service like Transunion or Equifax from which she could pull your entire credit history if she felt so inclined (even publicly accessible "deep web" sites like Pipl and Spokeo sometimes offer a stupid amount of info). If you're seriously concerned, watch your credit for a while. It may even be worth it to pay a monitoring service. But it's most likely you're just being paranoid. In this day and age, who could blame you?
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post #8 of 13
4/21/11 at 4:10pm
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Originally Posted by pagoda View Post

Sounds like a wonderful little adventure, but you can't steal someone's identity just by knowing their full name. Otherwise, everyone would have their identity stolen. 

 

And I always ask a girl's middle name on the first date. 



You can put a curse on them!

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post #9 of 13
4/21/11 at 4:39pm

Oy vey, this sounds shady...


Edited by Agent Z - 4/21/11 at 4:51pm
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post #10 of 13
4/21/11 at 6:11pm
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Originally Posted by Trevor View Post

I don't know if you had your identity stolen - probably not - but this would make a cool intro to a horror movie.  I'm picturing a scene where you're puking spaghetti into the kitchen sink as your cell phone keeps ringing.



I'm just glad I didn't end up sewn to someone's ass.  I called the bank this morning to switch credit card numbers.


Edited by Monty Underhill - 4/21/11 at 6:45pm
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post #11 of 13
4/21/11 at 7:29pm
Maybe she wants to literally steal your identity. As in she wants to feed you drug-laced spaghetti, remove all of your skin, and just walk around town wearing a Monty suit.
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post #12 of 13
4/21/11 at 8:56pm

I'm imagining this conversation between Monty and Trevor with real life Boss Smiley-like avatars sitting at a dining table across from each other.

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post #13 of 13
4/28/11 at 1:39pm

So, what's your mother's maiden name?  Oh, that's interesting.  You must have had great times growing up with her on...what was the name of that street?  And I'll bet you were the cutest kid at your grade school.  Which one was that?  I can just picture you as a little boy, playing with your dog Rover.  Or Spot.  Or what was his name?

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