All the Fun Things You Can Do If You Steal Someone’s Identity
The evil week is coming to an end, but this does not mean that your evil deeds need to end. To paraphrase Tracey Jordan, you can live every week like it’s a week of evil.
This could mean that you will continue to lie to your children , cheat at more games , study The Satanic Bible, or launder some more money .
Or maybe you just really want to play with someone. And if you have the technical skills, there are countless ways to do this by stealing someone’s identity.
You know the obvious ones: open a credit card in their name, order a bunch of shit on Amazon, buy a car, blah, blah, blah. But we try to be a little more creative than that. Here are some of the most evil things a scammer can do to someone else’s identity:
Get free medical care
Theft of medical data is one of the most difficult forms of anti-theft prevention. Basically, you would use someone else’s name and health insurance information to see, consult, or receive treatment. This is one or two blows: the fraudster’s medical records have messed up all your medical data, and they are stuck in the bill.
So, if you already have someone’s personal information but no medical attention due to the broken US social system, really, what other choice do you have? Surprise Medical Bills are for law-abiding US citizens.
(Seriously though, if you’ve become a real victim of health data theft, which is becoming more common, here’s what you need to do .)
Catfish Someone
It’s one of the classic shitty things to do online, but it leaves a lot of room for creative interpretation without necessarily requiring a ton of technical know-how. Great hack! Basically, you can create a fake online look (or assume it’s someone else) and make someone fall in love with you before you pull the rug out from under it and step on their heart while it’s spread out in the cold. dark floor.
BroBible, a site that I believe is a year-round, sinister week with no good faith, offers this five-step process for someone catching a cat. I would quote some of them, but I’m afraid it’s too frustrating even for this post. Keep in mind!
There are lots of scare stories about catching a cat, but I would have turned to a series Dirty Johnseries of the LA Times, in particular, for inspiration. If you’re looking for a more humorous take on internet sabotage, American Vandal Season 2 has an elaborate cat-catching storyline that I found satisfying.
Really catfish someone
However, catching someone for cruelty, easy sex, or money and then jumping up and down is pretty silly. Why not take this to the extreme? Marry.
While the marriage identity theft scenario may take place for immigration reasons , it is also obviously useful as a financial gimmick. You want money or property, it is there, so you get married. All you really need to do this, according to news reports, is someone else’s birth certificate . Use your tricks to make sure there is no marriage contract, get a divorce, and then give up.
This exact scam is played out in an episode of The Good Cop on Netflix, a show that isn’t a good one that I still watched in its entirety in one weekend.
Pretend to be a missing family member
With a little hair dye and a lot of swagger, you can pretend to be a long-lost family member in the spirit of the infamous French criminal Frederic Bourdin. Why would you do that? Of course, to avoid trouble with the other you reported 40 impersonating.
Immortalized in the documentary The Pretender, Bourdain, also known as the Chameleon, assumed the identity of Nicholas Barclay, a missing American teenager, in 1997, according to Time . He lived in the boy’s undiscovered real family for over a year:
Despite the fact that he had a strong French accent and did not match the boy’s appearance (Bourdin’s eyes are brown and Barclay’s are blue), the Barclay family bought into the deception, bringing Bourdin back to the United States, enrolling him in classes and never questioning it he was their long-lost teenager. They only discovered the ruse after an investigator working on the TV show Hard Copy interviewed the boy in preparation for his miraculous appearance, and noticed all the inconsistencies.
By the looks of it, Bourdain is married now, so just know that even if you are a criminal whose numerous impersonation schemes have been thwarted by the police, you can still find love. Mentally.
Launder money
Why not combine the two Evil Week hacks and launder money under an assumed name?
In this scenario, you might be working in a bank or have access to someone’s personal data and bank account information in a different way ( look on the Dark Web for a lot of information). You opened a checking account in the name of that person and then either embezzled funds from the bank or transferred funds from your international criminal conspiracies to that account. Then you can enjoy your money, and if and when the police catch you, you are safe – they will go to arrest another person. Light!
Here’s how it happened with Carlos Gomez, a Florida-based UPS driver, in 2004, according to the Miami Herald :
Fighting a bad cold, Carlos Gomez decided to sleep alone that night so as not to expose his wife.
He woke up in a nightmare. Just before dawn, persistent knocks on the door forced the former Marine and the young father out of bed. Federal agents broke into his Kendall home, pushed his wife away, and rushed into his bedroom. They held guns to his face before handcuffing him.
“I kept asking, ‘What’s going on? “Recalls Gomez, who works as a driver for UPS. “I was afraid for my life.”
Gomez, convicted of a money laundering scheme, will spend nearly two weeks in a federal detention center and another seven months under house arrest.
It was 222 days before federal prosecutors realized that this was all a terrible mistake: a bank fraud had stolen his identity.
Steal someone’s house
Let’s say you notice that a neighbor or someone else has been away from home for a while. They may be on extended work leave overseas or caring for a loved one in another state. Be that as it may, their house is open and their mail is piling up. Why not move?
There are several ways to do this. One could simply accept the identity of the person whose home it really is. Another option is to hand over counterfeit papers by signing the house to yourself. This is how it works, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer :
- The fraudster finds a target home – apparently vacant, but still in fair condition in an area where homes are easy to resell.
- From the public records open to anyone who visits the mayor’s office, he gets a legal description of the property. He can also check to see if the property taxes are past due – another sign that the owner may have died or left.
- The fraudster obtains a form from an office supply store and fills it out using the name of the current owner, real or fictitious buyer, and the same property description that was used the last time the property changed hands.
- Armed with a fake ID, the thief visits a notary and receives a fake signature from the real owner, notarized upon transfer of the deed. State law does not set any specific requirements for identification, so a fraudster can get by with a fake driver’s license or just a supermarket check cashing card.
- The new document, which paid just $ 37, is filed with Companies House on the first floor of City Hall. The house is officially sold.
Of course, you may run into some complications when the real owner returns, but who knows when this will happen – overall it seems like a pretty straightforward process. If you know how to forge documents and steal personal information, why not give it a try?
You may face a lot more problems, but it looks like these activities will keep you busy until the next Angry Week. See you later.