Lost Wallet?

Loose your wallet or a credit card? You better start checking your credit. A friend recently lost her credit card at a gas station, with 12 hours over $500 in gas charges were recorded across town at a station with no cameras. Thieves are smart. In another case Jose F.Lara got a check in the mail for almost $2,800 from a bank in Arlington County, VA for an overpayment on his second mortgage. Problem is…you guessed it he didn’t have a second mortgage and had never done business with that bank! The news left him just a little stunned and confused. Turns out that a year prior Lara lost his wallet and Elizabeth Cabrera-Rivera found it. She then used Lara’s identification to buy a $419,000 townhouse with no money down. A townhouse she and her family moved into, refinanced and then quickly fled not long after Lara turned up at the bank in December. Mari J. Frank, a California lawyer, identity fraud victim and author of numerous books and articles on the subject, said, “They don’t really see themselves as doing something wrong as long as they pay the bill.” Well this story has a happy ending, Elizabeth Cabrera-Rivera found out that there is something wrong with what she did and plead guilty to identity fraud, credit card theft, conspiracy and obtaining a loan under false pretenses. So where is your wallet? And what is in it?

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