He’s just been a victim of identity theft! He keeps all of his receipts until he gets his bank statement, and then tears them all up into tiny little pieces.

Two checks per month – one for rent, one for insurance. The card never leaves his possession.

Yet in the last month someone made a deposit for say, $100. The next day, they withdrew $150. The amount of both in and out transactions kept growing, and at one point there was over a grand deposited. As of today, there was a negative balance of almost $100 - which is the only reason he caught it… before he scheduled a meeting with the bank examiner.

Personally, I’ve never worried about identity theft – hey, if someone wanted to steal my financial identity they were pretty bad off… As this hit close to home, I wanted to share the reminder…

Don’t let someone ‘cook your books’!