Archive for September, 2008

How a Facebook fraudster stole my identity

Submitted by Brian P. on Tues, 9/23/2008 – 12:07pm. The first I knew about it was a phone call. My girlfriend admonished me for succumbing to the temptations of Facebook, a website whose poisoned fruits I had previously said I found unappealing. I stood accused of two crimes: a lack of willpower and a failure […]

I was falsely branded a pedophile

Submitted by Mary M. on Tues, 9/02/2008 – 10:47am. With ID fraud on the rise, the assumption is you’ll lose money which can be claimed back. But Simon Bunce lost his job, and his father cut off contact, when he was arrested after an ID fraudster used his credit card details on a child porn […]