Last spring, my car had an issue with its brakes as I was driving through Maryland. It got towed into Ft Meade while I sought another solution to travel the last several states to get home, and then disappeared forever. Fortunately my insurance company gave me a payout. Unfortunately, I had to spend one hell of a lot of time and effort challenging court cases because someone then decided to use my license plates to commit traffic infractions all summer.
I could only imagine if someone used my stolen tags to commit real crimes!
He deserves heavy compensation, and the people involved need to be fired.
I wonder…
Since I got arrested once for a fight at highschool (self defence btw), and got fingerprinted. And since they fingerprint you every time you get arrested (I assume that’s what they do, right?) Anyone impersonating me would actually get found out, since their fingerprints wouldn’t match the record…
So actually, if you already got arrested before, you’re immune to identity thiefs using your name to commit crimes…
Right?
🤔
(Shitty Life Pro Tips: Get arrested for a minor offense to make you immune to identity theft?)
Alternatively, do an fbi background check at your local post office, or get a passport and they’ll capture the same biometrics.
get a passport and they’ll capture the same biometrics
Wait really? I got my first US passport when I was under 18 and um…
I don’t quite remember ever getting fingerprinted…
They probably had you hold your fingers up to a small scanner if you turned 18 in the past 20ish years, not ink and paper fingerprinted you.
They should fingerprint you. Same as when you get a TSA precheck or global entry thing. There’s a meeting they have to do, in a passports case, usually at the post office, where they take your fingerprints as a part of the biometrics.
It’s pretty universal for holding a passport in most countries IIRC.
It’s possible that never happened, but they took my fingerprints both with a passport, my Global Entry, and a DOJ/FBI background check (this one I know takes your fingerprints for sure, had to get a few of these done for work related reasons).
