My first encounter with identity theft personally was when I was 10 years old. My dad made a bank account for me so he could drop some money in it over time to build for my college education. Of course I worked summers and odd times. At least half of what I made went in that account. Dad would often match my deposit. Dad got the bank statement in the mail at home. The account had his name on it. One day he came to my room ready to rip me a new one. I was not supposed to touch the money in that account and the money was going somewhere. I finally convinced Dad I had not been using the money so that the took me downtown to the bank branch to find out where the money had gone. A person in a not so far town but in another state had a name very similar to my name and her account number was the same as mine but the last two numbers in the accounts were reversed. Back then data entry was done by stenographers. When the steno reversed the last two numbers in the other persons account the account number was my bank account number and her debits came out of my account. It took some convincing to get dad to believe it. The bank corrected the accounting errors and I had my money back. This seemed so completely innocent that neither of us were told to change our account numbers. The bank officers were certain it would not ever happen again. The bank said they would watch it. No harm no foul. I would learn much later how much trouble this was to be for me.
No one knew about or talked about “identity theft” because the concept did not exist yet and the word combination did not exist in the every day vernacular. Since it did not have a name it did not exist.
I did not think anything more about identity theft or the girl who was about my age who lived in the next state and occasionally got tangled up in my bank account until 20 years later. I was a representative for the United States Chamber of Commerce, Washington DC. It was the year 2000. We had all globally escaped Y2K but people were still skittish so I was quite busy. In my job for USCC I visited members and legislators all over my district. As I entered each new town in my district for the first time the first thing I did was stop by the police station and tell them I was in town making calls on businesses. I produced my USCC badge and they checked me out to confirm I was legitimately with USCC DC. When my credentials checked out I was free to meet with the business owners in their town. The second thing I did in every new territory was stop by the local chamber of commerce office and introduce myself to the local chamber executive.
One day I stepped in the door of the local chamber and introduced myself as the National Chamber Representative for the town. The Chamber Executive said to come sit in his office for a minute. He would be right back. Well. He took a bit of time and acted a little strange. I started thinking Maybe he was upset at the National Chamber showing up in his town. I called the US Chamber as I sat there in his office and asked if there were any issues with this town and the local chamber of if I was ok to be there. It came back clean. As far as they knew at home office in DC no one had ever been to this little town. I was the first. I was glad I had stopped in to the local police to let them know I was in town.
The local chamber executive finally came back into his office and sat down as his desk. He apologized for keeping me waiting so long. Then he told me a very strange story. He said he could not believe his eyes when I walked into his chamber. Then when I shook his hand and showed my badge and my name was on the badge he said he almost gasped. He had put me in his office while he went to get his secretary to call the elementary school. It seems the kindergarten teacher there in that town looked just like and had the same name.
His son was in that kindergarten class with my look alike. He drove there to check it out for himself. She was in fact in the classroom with his son. I was sitting under the watchful eye of his Chamber Secretary. He said we were definitely identical. I had a double.
He told me I needed to get this fixed because she was “not a nice lady”. He said the school district was shocked a person with such impressive education credentials would want to come to work in their tiny town for the wages they could pay. Then they found out she was teaching kindergarten Monday, Wednesday, Friday mornings then going to a near by city whoring at night. She made quite a name for herself in that other town as a porn queen. The parents at the kindergarten were upset she was the teacher for their 4 and 5 year old children but the credentials were too impressive to pass up. The local chamber executive kept saying over and over how he could not believe how much we looked alike. I finished my official business with him. I met with the business owners of the town. And I left. I did not pursue the issue at the kindergarten class at the school.
It was several weeks later when I got a phone call from my Alma Matter. The Dean of Education there said they were getting calls from this district in this little town where the double was teaching kindergarten. The parents were very upset. My Dean of Education said, “There is a duplication on your degree. We have issued two diplomas on one set of classes. We think we know who the real student who finished the classes but we have to have something from you to confirm that. You gotta send us something from those classes. Something that will back our decision” When we get your documents showing you took the classes we will correct the mistake with the school district that is bringing this to our attention.
I did not have any of the documents from my college days by that time. They were with my ex husband. I did contact him. He did still have my files. He told me he sent them to the Dean of Education. I did not follow up with him and confirm anything. The University did reissue my diploma. But, it was much later that I put it together that this double in the little town teaching kindergarten on my credentials was the same girl whose bank account number was the same as my bank account number with the last two numbers reversed when I was 10 years old. She had been using my personal financial information for more than 20 years. Soon I got a call from a university in Nebraska saying I owed them thousands and thousands of back school loans. Of course that was not me. I am in Missouri. They did some signature studies and the signatures on the loan came out being the same as mine! It was like I signed for those school loans. My ex husband was the son of a very good attorney. My father in law told us how to prove I was not the one who signed for the loans. And I did not have to pay them back. She showed up at my Ear Nose and Throat doctors office a few days after my appointment. The doctors office called me very astonished but they knew there were two of us….. And she was the one not paying her bill. They cautioned me that it could be very difficult for me if she kept showing up where I was.
IF I had not bee the district manager with the United States Chamber of Commerce, Washington DC I would not have gone to that little town and walked into the office of the Local Chamber of Commerce. I might never have known she was using my identity for her personal gain. I understand she lost her job teaching kindergarten. I heard the university pressed charges. I did not press charges. I should have. That was not the last I heard from her. She has caused me a great deal of trouble because she has chosen to live her life as me. She assumed my life. Teaching on my credentials. As this continues to unfold it is clear Satan is setting up people to live duplicate lives against the True Sons of GOD to cause damage and confusion to be able to win the war. Satan cannot create anything. He can only duplicate and copy the original.
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