Stolen Identity

went to the bank today and what do they tell me

[brendan3eb]

Today when I went to the bank, I was notified that 2 people had used my social security number, I'm currently contacting the social security. The odd thing is that both peeps live near me and we have their full addresses. Why am I posting this here? Google's Adsense program is the only place that I have given my social security to on the net (and i have absolutely no viruses that read my input, my computer is perfecto). I think that the peeps probably mistyped their own social security numbers because they both lve 15 minutes away from me and gave their full addresses & info, but just in case I'm making a post here asking if there have been any recent problems with stolen identities in the adsense program?

[dertyfern]

I don't get it...did the other people mistype their ss numbers or did it somehow get out via adsense?

[loanuniverse]

Sounds like the bank made a booboo, rather than someone stealing the info from the adsense database.

How did they find this out? Through their database or did they run a credit bureau on you? Have you run your own reports to check that the information is correct?

In your case, I would.

[PatrickDeese]

Have you considered offline possibilities? Your bank obviously has your SS # and maybe someone got lucky dumpster diving at your bank.

Seems unusual that onine "adsense hackers" would just happen to live in your town.

[Never_again]

Seems unusual that on[l]ine "adsense hackers" would just happen to live in your town.

Agreed. No only unusual, but highly improbable, doubtful and unlikely that they obtained your SSN from Google. Better start looking for another reason.

[willybfriendly]

Victim of ID theft here.

If they got your name, birthdate and parents names (not hard) then they can get a picture ID and waltz down to the SS office to get a replacement card.

The system is full of holes that any two bit crook can exploit. Need a birth certificate? Order one up. Need a SS card. Get a duplicate. Need a drivers license. Get a duplicate.

In some States the drivers license number is still the SS number, and the DMV records are often considered public!

I would suggest that you flag your credit histories, register the ID theft with the Feds, put a password on all of your bank accounts and notify all of your credit card holders.

There is a good possibility it will only get worse :(

WBF

[novice]

You may want to put a security freeze on your credit information.

[grandpa]

put a password on all of your bank accounts

I used to put passwords on my bank account, my utilities (phone, electric, gas), and any other place I could. After that, nothing got in or out without the pwd. You might not be surprised to find out how much a person can learn (steal) about you with little more than a phone number, or a license plate number.

Agreed with others here, it's not likely that the information was leaked from Google. However, if you sent the info in an email to Google, obviously you may as well have posted it on a billboard.

[nosense]

"both peeps live near me"

Uggggg.

find phone cord or dsl or cable cord, disconnect.