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Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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>Okay, could you cite this, please? I've been very clear that I'm just speculating, but if you're so sure maybe you have some insider information I don't? I don't know of public sources to cite, but I've seen the data. If there exists good public material about how these companies source their data, I haven't seen it. These companies will accept data from essentially anywhere they can get it, not all of that will aff…

> I don't know of public sources to cite, but I've seen the data. If there exists good public material about how these companies source their data, I haven't seen it. So, it sounds like you're speculating. > These companies will accept data from essentially anywhere they can get it, not all of that will affect your credit score but it'll certainly affect your person profile. Name(s!),addresses,ssn(s!),dob(s!) and wha…

>So, it sounds like you're speculating.

So, it sounds like you’re calling me a liar.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Well, that article doesn't seem to contain anything useful. >Identity fraud is the use by one person of another person's personal information, without authorization, to commit a crime or to deceive or defraud that other person or a third person That does not even sound similar to what is being discussed here. It'd be useful if you could name at least some of the numerous laws that the discussed behaviour might violat…

Since I seem to be your personal Google bot today, here's another result: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/e-... Please rate my work on a scale 1-5

Look, you made a really broad claim and I'm curious. Your original comment read like like a confident statement of fact, but you can't seem to be able to point out a single relevant law anywhere in the world.

This is a huge document that doesn't really seem to contain anything relevant to what we're discussing here.

The euro laws I was able to check seem to have clear caveats like the british fraud act "intends, by making the representation— (i)to make a gain for himself or another, or (ii)to cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk of loss."

I really don't see the usual definitions of fraud applying here so I'm very curious as to which legislation actually might.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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I wonder how much of his personal information was gleaned from "respectable" American companies like Lexis-Nexis, Equifax, and Transperian? I'm sure they gave everything and medical history for the price of a few coins. I have no respect for companies that don't respect my privacy. And I make it a habit of giving them as much useless, inaccurate information as possible.

Those vendors' reports cost $10-$20 and contain no medical records.

I'm currently working on a batch of information requests about myself to different data brokers and alternative credit reporting firms. I send a copy of my drivers license and a recent utility bill and they send me my records for free. It's shocking what I found the last time I did this.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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hire a lawyer and write a letter. You're not at an impasse. You can have this cleared, if they don't have evidence and you write a letter, they have to shut it down.

No letter, just ask for Proof of Debt... most of these companies can't even validate how much you owe...

Exactly, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) says you have a right to ask a company that claims you owe it money to prove it.
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