Pissed off to say the least!
My Girlfriend, Connie, was training a young girl, 30, to do Bookkeeping with Quickbooks for a small company in small town Hiawassee. She had been training her for a couple weeks, Monday Connie finds $1000 worth of checks printed and cashed or used at Walmart. They were forged with the owners signature, but the thief signed her name to the back.(mistake 1) On Tuesday, Connie found that the thief had left her email open( mistake 2) and found conformation emails for credit card apps with Connie's info that were sent to the thief's email. Over the last few days a total of 8 cards were in the process of being activated and sent to the thief, along with a Square reader ( insert in phone and swipe stolen cards without ever leaving the house!).
Thief will be arrested and charged with 9 counts of identity theft/fraud and 5 counts of forgery.
Nothing was bought on stolen/new cards, but dealing with the credit report companies has been a pain in the ass!
Hopefully the thief wasn't smart enough to sell Connie's SS#
The owner was just trying to help out a single mom of two kids a job and got taken advantage of. We found out the the thief had previously lost custody of her kids and that her mom has full custody.
If you own a business, small or large, do a background check. We found out that she already had warrants out for her arrest for credit card fraud (surprise) and failure to pay child support.
Topic: Identtity theft! (Read 1434 times)
