Azat Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 some Armenian A-hole has stolen my identity and has opened a bunch of accounts under my name. they know my social security as well as they changed addresses and even my phone number and even called to laugh at me. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pissed off. i dont know how I'm going to clear up this mess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 some Armenian A-hole has stolen my identity and has opened a bunch of accounts under my name. they know my social security as well as they changed addresses and even my phone number and even called to laugh at me. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pissed off. i dont know how I'm going to clear up this mess wow,that's big....I work in a bank,and I hear these horror stories all the time....how did you find out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 and even called to laugh at me That is pretty stupid on his part. Just call the police. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Azat,I'm trying to find out what your next steps should be. My bank offers a identity theft program,where they keep you posted on anything that goes onto your credit through the 3 credit reporting systems and also if you are a victim of identity theft t hey will do the leg work to clear it up..check to see if your bank or any of your cc's had you enrolled in a program like that... I'm asking around to see what you should do next...I really feel for you buddy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Recover From Identity Theft http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idth...ers/defend.html How Do You Get Back Your Identity After An Identity Theft Attack? http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Do-You-Get-B...?&id=627464 hope these sights help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 That is pretty stupid on his part. Just call the police. oh her part... they she called cingular and asked for my cell number to be changed. A-hole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Thank you Maral jan. I am talking to an investigator on Monday. I have been so careful about this kind of stuff, I am more hurt and upset at myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 (edited) Azat, do NOT blame yourself for such a crime. This is a crime and you are the victim and the victim does NOT get the blame. This sort of stuff is very common these days and a lot of times there's not much you could have done other than being very watchful and of course the usual common sense. Edited September 10, 2007 by Sip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Azat - Good luck - I think it can be difficult/long to have everything sorted out. It may depend on your financial institution. A colleague had someone steal her identity, take out a mortgage and then default on the payments. Presumably the thief sold the property in order to benefit from the scam... Overnight she had no credit, her bank accounts were seized, and repossession procedure was underway for her "real" house... Pretty frightening! But I don't think there's a lot you can do to wholly prevent ID theft, short of shredding everything and never leaving your house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 don't blame yourself at all,there are sick sick people who sit around thinking of how to screw other poeple over for a profit. Have you reported it to the social security office yet?If you havn't ,you really should asap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 Vava, even if you shred everything, that doesn't protect from ID theft. One of my credit cards was compromised recently and it had nothing to do with anything I had done. Someone just had hacked into some vendor's site that I had bought things from (never found out who). Also, about a year ago UCLA sent out a mass email to pretty much everyone saying how their database had been hacked and social security numbers as well as other personal information had been compromised. Since then, I have been keeping a very close eye on my credit just in case ... there's really not much one can do other than to just be very watchful of fishy stuff and even then, by the time one finds out it is probably too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ani Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 Azat it happened to one of my relatives. An old lady had the same phone # and name ...So all her Macys, Target and other bills and later collection notices were addressed to my relative. 1st thing i did i contacted SS office and then started calling those places and letting them know about the issue, i also faxed the paper from SS offc to some of them. This was 2 years ago but she still gets calls sometimes Good Luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 (edited) Yea, I had something similar happen to me a while back, luckily they did not get my social security number. However, they got my debit card information and accessed my account and drained a couple of hundred dollars. Luckily, after an investigation, the bank determined it was fraud and reimbursed me to the full. It will work itself out, give it time, and if you are using more than one credit card, get it down to one. Also, I keep two separate bank accounts, one with my actual money, the other with petty cash that is my debit access. That's the one I use and I transfer money into but never more than 100 dollars. You learn after this experience, trust me. Excelsior. Edited September 12, 2007 by Anonymouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Thank you Maral jan. I am talking to an investigator on Monday. I have been so careful about this kind of stuff, I am more hurt and upset at myself so what happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 today i revived an email on my gmail acount leting me know unless i click on the url bellow all my bank acounts will be frozen, and this idiot thought he/she can use an yahoo mail to send me a mail on my gmail telling me this bewere of new nigirian scum artists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takoush Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 (edited) today i revived an email on my gmail acount leting me know unless i click on the url bellow all my bank acounts will be frozen, and this idiot thought he/she can use an yahoo mail to send me a mail on my gmail telling me this bewere of new nigirian scum artists I can relate to what you're saying Ed. About a year ago i received an e-mail from a Nigerian scam artist asking for money because his people were dying and they were in great need for money and blah blah blah. He e-mailed me a couple of times and I ignored him. Then a couple of months ago this man from Church he said that the same thing happened to him and he was thinking of sending him money. I told him to forget about it as it was a definite scam. Gees, how could he not put two and two together? I was surprised. But yes they try and they try hard. Edited September 14, 2007 by Anahid Takouhi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtraHye Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 Look what I got today, do you think I should e-mail him? Greetings, Before I start,I must firstly,apologize for this unsolicited proposal to you.I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship,but as time goes on you will realize the need for my action. My name is Kenneth Brown, Solicitor to Gerald Welsh,who died with his wife in an air crash on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline flight990. Before the death of Gerald Welsh, he maintained a fixed deposit account with a Financial services Company here in the UK(details of which I will disclose to you (later). Since his death,none of his relatives have come to make claims for this money as his beneficiary,and the bank cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claims, as beneficiary to the deceased as indicated in the bank guidelines. The bank has made several futile efforts to contact his relatives. Based on this discovery,I now seek your permission to have you stand in as a next of kin to the deceased,as all documentations will be carefully worked out by me for the release of these funds all amounting to the tune of (32,000,000.00)Dollars. to any nominated account of your choice. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law.If you are interested in my proposal, please Contact me immediately through email. mrkennethb@strompost.com Best Regards, Mr.Kenneth Brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 (edited) Sorry to rain on your parade, so to speak. THEFT is spelled THEFT, without the "theAft" Seriously though. I have been holding my tongue. You did indicate that they are Armenian, and that you have hired private investigators. Do you have any ideas as to who they may be? In case those idiots don't know. This is not a "laughing" matter. This is a felony, a police matter, subject to the fullest execution of the law. Let them know hat this is America, a land of law and order. Not Yerevan where the police may say something like ; "Vochinch! Togh vor mer sovats Yerevantisiner@ kegheqen koghopten da girouk yev apoush amerikatsinerin". No matter what one may say. Our police are not as corrupted as those in Yerevan. Reminds us the story that I may havr told brfore. The State trooper, for whatever infraction, stops a station wagon full of all the twelve members of the family. Anbakoum, the patriarch of the tribe, with his handle bar moustache, sitting in the rear seat say; "Sa shan@ mi voskor(krtson)* shprtir vor mez azat artsaki". The tropper, in an equally impeccable Armenian says- "Ays shun@ voskor chi krtsi"! In some dilaects "krtson- chewing bone"(as thrown to a dog) is used to mean "bribe/kashar". Edited September 14, 2007 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 (edited) Look what I got today, do you think I should e-mail him? Greetings, Before I start,I must firstly,apologize for this unsolicited proposal to you.I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship,but as time goes on you will realize the need for my action. My name is Kenneth Brown, Solicitor to Gerald Welsh,who died with his wife in an air crash on the 31st October 1999 in an Egyptian airline flight990. Before the death of Gerald Welsh, he maintained a fixed deposit account with a Financial services Company here in the UK(details of which I will disclose to you (later). Brown Yeah, yeah Kenneth Brown of UK. How about Lagos, Nigeria? Maybe you should install a block to spam and bulk mail. Our cyber-geeks will show you how. "Mr. Kenneth"??? Who else than a Nigerian idiot would sign themselves "MR"?? Yes. At times, when I call certain numbers, and they ask me who I am, I do tell them that I am Mr. so and so, not John, Jim or Joe, and right away they know who I am, and they tell me "Yes, Mr. so and so, 'Harry/Harriet' will be right with you". Edited September 14, 2007 by Arpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azat Posted September 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 (edited) Sorry to rain on your parade, so to speak. THEFT is spelled THEFT, without the "theAft" Seriously though. I have been holding my tongue. You did indicate that they are Armenian, and that you have hired private investigators. Do you have any ideas as to who they may be? In case those idiots don't know. This is not a "laughing" matter. This is a felony, a police matter, subject to the fullest execution of the law. Let them know hat this is America, a land of law and order. Not Yerevan where the police may say something like ; "Vochinch! Togh vor mer sovats Yerevantisiner@ kegheqen koghopten da girouk yev apoush amerikatsinerin". No matter what one may say. Our police are not as corrupted as those in Yerevan. Reminds us the story that I may havr told brfore. The State trooper, for whatever infraction, stops a station wagon full of all the twelve members of the family. Anbakoum, the patriarch of the tribe, with his handle bar moustache, sitting in the rear seat say; "Sa shan@ mi voskor(krtson)* shprtir vor mez azat artsaki". The tropper, in an equally impeccable Armenian says- "Ays shun@ voskor chi krtsi"! In some dilaects "krtson- chewing bone"(as thrown to a dog) is used to mean "bribe/kashar". Arpa jan, they are Armenian and in fact now I have names and phone numbers and email address too. I did not hire an investigator. the investigator I was talking about was from Discover card. They are very professional. let me list some of the lings that happened in chronological order so you can see how good these guys are. I will also tell you that Glendale PD was NO help at all. very disappointed in them Friday - sept 7 9:45am I get a call on my from an Armenian girl asking me if I got the FedEx package she sent me. When I told her I was at work and asked who she was she laughed and told me i have a surprise when I get home and hung up on me. Friday - sept 7 10:30 am get a sms message from att saying "welcome to att" - dont pay attention Friday - sept 7 5:30 pm I call a friend from my cell who informs me that the number i am calling from is a different number than mine Friday - sept 7 5:35 pm call att and they informed me that I had changed the number that morning. after i inform them that i had not they reset it back to the old number Friday - sept 7 8pm When I got home I did not have any FedEx package. completely not thinking that anything can be wrong Saturday - return home from work and there is a discover card in the mail. call discover and they say that it is the card that i had called in lost on thursday and that I should only use the card that I got in FedEx on Friday. Immediately realize what was happening on Friday Saturday - get a credit report and find out that they have opened up a WaMu card as well Monday - Friday - I place fraud alerts and change ID and Passwords in banks and credit unions. I called all my financial institutions and inform them of the situation and add a passcode to my SSN. In the mean time they end up getting 7-8 credit cards and charge up 51K on the cards Thursday my credit alert tells me that B of A has a new account for me. They know all the bank rules. they walk in and open up a checking account for 340 dollars cash. BofA marks the customer as an active customer immediately. next day they transferred 1678 dollars out of country. call BofA they wont close the account until investigation is complete. guess what the next they they transfer more money even though the account is 1300 over drafted Tuesday I stay home and go to the Glendale police with printed docs from bank and CC sites. guess what? The officer on duty informs me that there is not much that can be done now and that I have to wait for few weeks to get reports from the banks in the mail before they will file a police report. Awesome... basically they told me to go and get F&*@ed for few more weeks before we will even look at your case.(great system) Everyday I wake up to sms messages from Experian informing me of new accounts and changes to my credit info. Its a sinking feeling. I cant tell you how upset I am Edit note: couple of other things to mention. fraud alerts prevent new accounts from being created... However companies like Discover once they check your credit score will not do it again if you request additional accounts/cards for a month and there is absolutely no flag to add on their system from preventing new cards from being created. What does this mean? Well, I get the initial card on that first Friday, cancel it when I find out, yet Discover went on to issue a new cards(completely new account) 3 more times. of the 4 accounts I was able to catch one in time to prevent any charges, yet they managed to spend 12K on one, 6 on another and 1500 on another. Last note: I always worked very hard to make sure my credit score was very very high has dropped from 809 to 747 in a week and no one has yet really reported any non payments. I am guessing that when the time comes to get a new car in january I will be at a much higher interest rate as my score will be much lower... F*@&ing A-holes. Edited September 15, 2007 by Azat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 even though it is fraud and there is an investigation which I'm sure will prove that you were not the one requesting and useing these cards you're credit will be affected permanently?It can't be fixed after the investigation is done and you're proved innocent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shahan Araradian Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 Arpa jan, they are Armenian and in fact now I have names and phone numbers and email address too. I did not hire an investigator. the investigator I was talking about was from Discover card. They are very professional. let me list some of the lings that happened in chronological order so you can see how good these guys are. I will also tell you that Glendale PD was NO help at all. very disappointed in them Friday - sept 7 9:45am I get a call on my from an Armenian girl asking me if I got the FedEx package she sent me. When I told her I was at work and asked who she was she laughed and told me i have a surprise when I get home and hung up on me. Friday - sept 7 10:30 am get a sms message from att saying "welcome to att" - dont pay attention Friday - sept 7 5:30 pm I call a friend from my cell who informs me that the number i am calling from is a different number than mine Friday - sept 7 5:35 pm call att and they informed me that I had changed the number that morning. after i inform them that i had not they reset it back to the old number Friday - sept 7 8pm When I got home I did not have any FedEx package. completely not thinking that anything can be wrong Saturday - return home from work and there is a discover card in the mail. call discover and they say that it is the card that i had called in lost on thursday and that I should only use the card that I got in FedEx on Friday. Immediately realize what was happening on Friday Saturday - get a credit report and find out that they have opened up a WaMu card as well Monday - Friday - I place fraud alerts and change ID and Passwords in banks and credit unions. I called all my financial institutions and inform them of the situation and add a passcode to my SSN. In the mean time they end up getting 7-8 credit cards and charge up 51K on the cards Thursday my credit alert tells me that B of A has a new account for me. They know all the bank rules. they walk in and open up a checking account for 340 dollars cash. BofA marks the customer as an active customer immediately. next day they transferred 1678 dollars out of country. call BofA they wont close the account until investigation is complete. guess what the next they they transfer more money even though the account is 1300 over drafted Tuesday I stay home and go to the Glendale police with printed docs from bank and CC sites. guess what? The officer on duty informs me that there is not much that can be done now and that I have to wait for few weeks to get reports from the banks in the mail before they will file a police report. Awesome... basically they told me to go and get F&*@ed for few more weeks before we will even look at your case.(great system) Everyday I wake up to sms messages from Experian informing me of new accounts and changes to my credit info. Its a sinking feeling. I cant tell you how upset I am Edit note: couple of other things to mention. fraud alerts prevent new accounts from being created... However companies like Discover once they check your credit score will not do it again if you request additional accounts/cards for a month and there is absolutely no flag to add on their system from preventing new cards from being created. What does this mean? Well, I get the initial card on that first Friday, cancel it when I find out, yet Discover went on to issue a new cards(completely new account) 3 more times. of the 4 accounts I was able to catch one in time to prevent any charges, yet they managed to spend 12K on one, 6 on another and 1500 on another. Last note: I always worked very hard to make sure my credit score was very very high has dropped from 809 to 747 in a week and no one has yet really reported any non payments. I am guessing that when the time comes to get a new car in january I will be at a much higher interest rate as my score will be much lower... F*@&ing A-holes. That was a very unpleasant read Azat... That is unheard of an Armenian woman calling you and laughing at your face! (what type of culture is this???) This reinforces my reasons why I stay CLEAR of Հայաստանցիs (Armenians from Armenia)! They even screw their own! Most will befriend you only when they need something. Now... THAT's how those thug/mafia-looking (what they call "goghakan" in Hayasdantsi-speak) 20-to-30-something-year-old guys driving Rolls Royces in Glendale make their "money." I wouldn't be surprised if the guy who played this scam on you is someone you know personally... I know I'm not doing ANY business with stantsis -- no restaurants, mechanics, body shops, doctors, or dentists! What a plague... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 That was a very unpleasant read Azat... That is unheard of an Armenian woman calling you and laughing at your face! (what type of culture is this???) This reinforces my reasons why I stay CLEAR of Հայաստանցիs (Armenians from Armenia)! They even screw their own! Most will befriend you only when they need something. Now... THAT's how those thug/mafia-looking (what they call "goghakan" in Hayasdantsi-speak) 20-to-30-something-year-old guys driving Rolls Royces in Glendale make their "money." I wouldn't be surprised if the guy who played this scam on you is someone you know personally... I know I'm not doing ANY business with stantsis -- no restaurants, mechanics, body shops, doctors, or dentists! What a plague... hey, shahanik.. ROYAL PURJ-HAMUDIAN degenerate A-hole! where in his post did Azat say "she was from Armenia?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtraHye Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 That was a very unpleasant read Azat... That is unheard of an Armenian woman calling you and laughing at your face! (what type of culture is this???) This reinforces my reasons why I stay CLEAR of Հայաստանցիs (Armenians from Armenia)! They even screw their own! Most will befriend you only when they need something. Now... THAT's how those thug/mafia-looking (what they call "goghakan" in Hayasdantsi-speak) 20-to-30-something-year-old guys driving Rolls Royces in Glendale make their "money." I wouldn't be surprised if the guy who played this scam on you is someone you know personally... I know I'm not doing ANY business with stantsis -- no restaurants, mechanics, body shops, doctors, or dentists! What a plague... Who the hell do you think YOU are coming to a forum owned by an Armenian from Armenia "stantsi" like you artistically put it and make all this negative comments. You and everyone else like you should wake up and realize that nobody is an angel including themselves. I knew this one guy who thought just like you and ended up marring a Berutsee and ended up eating his words. The girl he married ended up getting a diverse and getting half his money. There are good and bad in everybody not just "stantsis" If you hate "stantsis so much then leave this forum and don't ever come back again. We don't need anyone like you on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harut Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 Azat jan, dard mi ara... karevor@ qez chen goghatsel... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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