re: #190 Stanley Sea

I have a shredder and use it. I just brought up the point that ID theft is like being mugged. It happens, it’s traumatic, but an industry has been built on something that most likely will not happen to you. And the fear ! !

I have personally known one person to have their identity “stolen”, and it was my deceased grandmother, because one of her less scrupulous caregivers had enough of her personal info to open card accounts in her name posthumously

Stanley is right in that there’s a ton of id theft industry that purposefully scares the Christ out of people, makes people believe that oh shit they’re all coming to get you

Sorta like the missing white blond girl of the week that always gets hyped on news: makes parents freak out and think there’s a bazillion kidnappings in America EVERYONE PANIC