It's MY life now!!!........

[Silent Chrleader]

Well, I got an e-mail this morning from the "guy" from the dating website, and I now strongly suspect that he doesn't exist!

In the last week, "we" have e-mailed a handful of times and there were a couple of things that made me wonder but nothing too concerning...... like asking about what kind of music I liked, when I had told him in prior e-mail.....said something to the effect that age and distance didn't matter when it came to love (which was weird because "he" was only supposedly 2 years younger than I, and lived in a city only 45 minutes away)...... but then the e-mail I had this morning, he talked about how great it is to live in CA (2 states away!)...... and he asked about about what kind of pets I had when I had sent him a pic of my dog in the e-mail he was replying to!!

Soooo...... I looked back in the e-mails for anything I may have given him that could be used for identity theft, and have taken steps to protect myself...... I didn't give last names, but I did use the first names of my kids..... and I had given my cell number, which can be looked up in a reverse lookup on-line.

I did a "fraud alert" with the Credit Reporting Agencies so that if anyone tries to get credit in my name, they will call me to verify it's me. Luckily, if that were to happen, they would not be able to get anything anyway, because we are in the middle of bankruptcy and therefore our credit is dismal anyway.

I don't use the kids names or dogs names in passwords to my accounts so I think I'm OK there. Because part of my last name is in my e-mail, and it's a unique name, I don't think it would be difficult for someone to find out what it is because as I said, we are listed...... so I have told my D24 and S18 to put a "fraud alert" on their Credit Report too, just to be safe. And yes, I called H too because if someone did a "records lookup" on me, there he is, so I told him to do the "fraud alert" just in case. He was very understanding and supportive, and even thought I was being a little over-paranoid, but better safe than sorry.

So...... well, I did say "time would tell" in my prior post..... I guess it did!!