Venture capital is a much deeper subject than I thought.

I thought all you had to do was convincingly show a need for seed money, promise you’ll make and share money, and you could get started.

Not so.

Here’s what I found… What Is Venture Capital?

File this under “Ya Just Don’t Know Who To Trust”.

Turns out a judicial services officer (whatever that is) in South Carolina used her position to assume someones identity.

She used the information “open several accounts”.

Didn’t say what type of accounts.

She no longer works for the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.

I feel better already.

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Anndorie Sachs is a mother in Salt Lake, Utah who was takin’ in life just fine until she was notified by child protective services her newborn tested positive for methamphetamine.

Holy crap! What an evil, thoughtless per-

Wait a minute. She hasn’t had a baby in over two years.

Either it took them a long time to run the test or there’s been a case of medical identity theft.

You gotta find out how her life was made a living hell.

And what about Joe Ryan and a $44,000 bill for surgery he never had. Yikes!

Of course no one wanted to help and everybody wanted to pile on.

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I very worried about credit card security and that people in this country can use credit cards that are not in their name. So I would like to make it impossible for anyone to get a credit card in my name. I would like to have something on the record that no credit card should be issued in my name unless my ID is veryfied in person. I read about credit freeze, but it seems that this does not protect completely. I also read about placing a fraud alert, but can I do that just as prevention? Without an actual identity theft having taken place? Is there one agency I can contact or do I have to contact every single credit card company?

Recently my daughter became the victim of identity theft. I like to call it hijacking.

Over $1000 gone from her chequeing account…

Continue…

I’m pretty sure I have seen a few ads for jobs which are just a ploy to get personal into for identity theft.

What kinds of scams have you seen and what should I look out for?