No worries. To be honest, I'm not sure. All I can do is speculate. All I really know is that my credit card number was obtained and was used to make a few smal

No worries. To be honest, I'm not sure. All I can do is speculate. All I really know is that my credit card number was obtained and was used to make a few small purchases. Blockbuster was one of them. I didn't find out about Blockbuster -- or its attempts to go after me -- until I got a letter in the mail from a collections agency. That was the first I'd heard of anything involving Blockbuster. I put two and two together and realized it must have stemmed from the credit card theft, which had happened a few months prior, and which I'd assumed had been largely wrapped up by then. I figured that the collections agency hadn't just been called in overnight. No doubt it was the third or fourth step in some procedure at Blockbuster, starting with phone calls and letters, presumably to whatever falsified address and number this guy gave them. When it finally came time to involve collections, collections probably figured that I was some sort of deadbeat, and that "my" address on file with Blockbuster was bogus, and that at least the credit card number and bank were valid. So they found a way to contact me at my real address. (It's also possible they found me, at that point, through some ancient account on file with Blockbuster's system. Who's to say how sophisticated their dedupe practices were with their DB, but I'm guessing not very?) I have no idea what else was involved in the theft, above and beyond lifting my number. It's possible a fake ID was involved. I really can't say, and I don't want to overstep the bounds of my recollection.