So I spent ten great days in the Bahamas on my honeymoon. Swam with dolphins, rented a jet ski, shagged my brains out, rode in a plane with Sugar Ray Leonard, hella cool. Just after I got off the plane from Nassau to Toronto, I realized I left my wallet in the seat pocket in front of me, on the plane. I tried to run back and get it, and a woman in a kevlar vest blocked me and told me I couldn't go back. I told her I left my wallet on the plane, so she told me I had to go through Lost and Found. Grabbed my bags, and went directly to the Lost and Found. Asked if I could get someone to escort me back onto the plane to get it, NO! That's against policy. Thankyou Osama! They'd have to send the "runner" to get it, and he was on his lunch break. So yadda yadda yadda, after 2 hours, just 40 minutes before my connecting flight leaves, someone finally goes to look for it, and radios in that it's not there. Most likely cause he just put it in his back pocket. ****! Three credit cards, two debit cards attached to five bank accounts, and about 300 bucks in Canadian and American currency gone! Not to mention my safety tickets, photo ID, driver's license, fuel cards, and even my damned Subway Club card! Plus an atm receipt I found for 211 grand in a casino! The flight back to Saskatchewan was baaad. This morning I get on the horn and find out my Platinum Class Mastercard was used to make a 50 dollar phone call, and my Visa Dividend card, which I haven't used all year, was used at a Shell station Pay at the Pump. I've been on the phone all bloody day trying to get this **** sorted out. The automated phone services at the credit bureaus are a joke. I sure hope this tool doesn't open up any more credit cards in my name. So I've learned...
1 Keep a thinner wallet that I can actually sit on.
2 Get a chain wallet!
3 Look after my **** better.
4 NEVER fly on Air Canada again. If it was Westjet, I'd have it back in a heartbeat.
5 Invest in one of those identity theft agencies. Anybody have any experience?

Had to rant. What's happened in the past 11 days?

 

My girlfrien is majoring in business and acounting, and she said that if you go to court for this, (which isn't too cheap), that you can only be held liable for a total of $50, no matter what. But that might only be on Credit Cards, not bank cards...idk. SORRY man, THAT SUCKS!

 

keep you eyes on your SS acount, you may not be the only one filing a 1040 ez next year

 

Welcome to my life. My identity was stolen. It wasn't caught for nearly 4 years. Turns out, there is really not much I can do, and I know who did it, and she is getting away with it.

Through most of it, technically I was still married, although seperated. 12 ($2500 + each) credit cards, 3 signature loans ($5000 each) , the utility bills at her new house ($650), and I even got sued by the state of PA ($5000).

My social was used, but she used a different name. Everything was sent directly to her house.

Sucks, and I am now having to file bankrupt. So good bye to everything I have worked so hard for to this point. I am starting fresh and new. Anything with a payment is going back at this point, only paid for stuff is staying. If I am going to do it, I am doing all of it.

 

Ex wives are evil. I think that pistols at 30 paces would be a better divorce arrangement. Survivor gets to keep all the stuff.

 

That might work. As long as you didn't have to take everything. The ex-wife's girlfriend was ugly, I never saw any interest in that.