This could ruin a person's life and yet it seems so easy for crooks to get away with it. Most of those cases involved banks which surprises me. I would think they would be the last place to be taken in. Credit cards scare me the most, a person doesn't even have to steal your card, just get the info from it. It is so easy to use by phone all you need is to reel off numbers, there is no identification required.
This part really made me wonder:
"She brought in her driver's license and passport, but they sent her home to get utility bills to prove she was who she said she was. When they were done they had looked at eight pieces of information," Foley said. "She argued and argued. She's still arguing with them and it's months later."
Too bad they weren't that demanding of the crook that stole her money!

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