111 Arrested In Massive Id Theft Bust

Now why am I not surprised? I had my credit card compromised at a self serve gas station. The police caught the culprits before I was even aware of the theft of my credit card number & my bank was trying to contact me - I was travelling at that time so the suspended my credit card whereby I contacted them to find out why. Should this happen to you, be sure to contact your credit rating agency so they can place a security watch on your account. Mine was under security watch for 5 years.

You can ask for a free copy of your credit report by mail. There are two main credit bureaus in Canada: Equifax Canada and TransUnion Canada. Complete details on how to order credit reports are available online. Basically, you have to send in photocopies of two pieces of identification, along with some basic background information. The reports will come back in two to three weeks. I dealt with these agencies by telephone and received instant service.

Story - http://www.pcadvisor...-id-theft-bust/

 

I fell out with credit nearly 20 years ago now, the final insult was after I paid the bill, including the unaccounted for transactions, cancelled the card, and was told to destroy it, they then 6 Months later sent me a bill, and credit black listed me for not making the minimum payments messing up my bank accounts and loans at the time.

I swore then that I would never ever have credit while I was alive :snckr: and I've stuck to it and personally think it was the best thing I ever did, nothing like being able to tell a 7th planet of a boss where to stick his job and not have to worry about paying your credit bills :lglaf:

 

There is always the Barter System to fall back on, Match. :snckr:

 

Yes Bartering works great, grab a store manager and start waving pound notes around (that probably wouldn't work in Australia)

 

An Aussies bartering system would be to trade beer and those hats with corks on :snckr:

 

Well I was thinking more along the lines of an Australian store manager being faced with pound notes saying something like "Get the **** out of my store you ******* God **** ******* Pommy *******""