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Yeah, but literally anyone can sign the contract. If I move out tomorrow and one of these checks lands in the new tenant's mailbox with my name on it there's no
by jschwartzi 8y ago
Yeah, but literally anyone can sign the contract. If I move out tomorrow and one of these checks lands in the new tenant's mailbox with my name on it there's nothing stopping that tenant from cashing the check by attempting to forge my signature. It's fraud, but now it's my problem because the idiots at the company put my name on the check.
This kind of despicable practice should be illegal.
- PurpleBoxDragon 8y agoThe entire notion of identity theft should be inverted. It wasn't your identity that was stolen, it was the money of which ever place didn't verify the person taking the money. So it should be their problem, not your problem.
- timerol 8y agoA comedic explanation is given by Mitchell & Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E "Some logged in on the bank website and committed identity theft electronically." "I see, did they take anything else?" "Uh, no." "Oh, good, so all the money's still there?" "What?" It's just my identity that's gone. None of your money?"
- nimish 8y agoIt is (or was) for credit cards. The banks, of course, figured out loopholes and with the CFPB out of commission, welcome to finance in America
- 1024core 8y agoOnce I got a Discover Card offer in the mail. I had become tired of these "offers", so I wrote in large black marker "TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST" on this 'offer' and sent it back. Lo and behold, I get a Discover card in the mail a few weeks later. So I called them up: I did not sign up, why did you send me the card? They insisted I had signed up. So I asked them to send me a copy of the application, with my signature on it (which they agreed to do). And a few days later, I get a printed copy of, basically, a database record listing the automatically filled-in information. Nothing else.