Report: Joe Biden’s Son Hunter’s Email Linked to Ashley Madison Account

[haele]

21. IRL, an identity thief opened up a credit card with just my name,birthdate, and an old address.

My bank and I figured out the information came from a 1993 application for lay-away at a store that went into bankruptcy and disappeared in the early 2000's.
I'm still dealing with Equifax, TRW, and the other credit rating services with that; the thief had maxed out the $5K card and then sold the account information to a couple other thieves who pulled similar stunts with store accounts and cell phones until my credit was totally shot; zombie debts are still out there, even after all the work I did to show that those purchases weren't mine.
There's apparently a thriving market for fake credit cards and i.d.s. And if you're addicted enough to want to hide that you're into something skeevy, it's not a big stretch to find resources to hide the fact that you're on sites like that.

Good thing about it is that after that, I became religious about saving receipts and letters.

Not saying that this was the case here, but I am pointing out that it is not difficult to use a fake id to get a credit card.

Haele