.:the plot thickens:.

the ‘wtf, mate’ factor has increased exponentially since my first post.

part of me is pretty fascinated with this in the sense of the process. there are a lot of moving pieces to this whole thing, and so i think the project manager in me is interested in making sure that everything lines up right and the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. for example, the credit collector…who now seems to be on my side/my friend…has to know what USAA bank is doing because ‘evil andrew’ went ahead and opened up a checking account in my name and was trying to pay american express with bad checks from it. ‘evil andrew’ also has a mailbox at a UPS store in las vegas, so in order to get information from the manager there, i had to call a detective at the austin police department who will then pass along everything she finds out to the FBI because, since this is across state lines and involves so much money, it has now become a federal case.

the other part of me is really annoyed that my life has been disturbed in such a way. it’s one thing to have your car broken into or even just a credit card stolen and used…but it’s a whole different ballgame when someone manages to get ahold of your social security number (and i have no idea how this guy did that). it’s bizarre to think that your entire life and everything you are in the system that is the united states of america is based on one 9-digit number.

the good news is that i’m extremely, extremely close to finding out who this guy is. a guy named john at the UPS store in las vegas, NV. has ALL kinds of stuff from ‘evil andrew’, including a copy of his driver’s license…which was an oregon driver’s license and has my name on it. john faxed all of that information over to the austin police department today.

i don’t know why, but i really want to see who this person is. i don’t feel like this is really happening to me, and maybe if i see who is doing this it’ll become more real. it’s something you see and hear about all the time, but…as the cliche goes…you never expect it to happen to you. and when it does, it’s so hard to reconcile in your own head. it becomes even more unreal when you hear someone tells you that they can’t give you information on something that is in your name because you can’t provide them with the correct identifying information. for example, i called up dell financial services because ‘evil andrew’ apparently went ahead and opened up an account with them in december of ‘07. i wanted to make sure that the account could not be accessed, but because i couldn’t tell the guy ‘my mother’s maiden name’ and my ‘correct address’, there wasn’t anything he could do. i had to beg him to put a block on the account so that it couldn’t be accessed. if i wouldn’t have begged him to do this, the account would still be open and at risk…even after i had warned him the account was fraudulent. i still don’t think he believed that it was really me…

so the crazines continues. at least i know now that the case is going to be handled by the FBI. for some reason that makes me think that stuff is gonna’ get done…

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