Posted on Nov 10, 2016

Ever have your online identity taken/stolen as a servicemember so that others commit fraud because you are in a trusted profession?

CW5 Sam R. Baker

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This is the second time while on deployment that folks have taken photos of me from Facebook and created accounts on different websites and social media to mislead and take advantage of people. I was contacted this deployment by a officer of the law who suspected that the person communicating to his wife and mother was not me. This is seriously a nuisance and issue for my family and job.

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Posted 8 y ago

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Yes, I have had issues with it

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MSG Brad Sand

Posted 8 y ago

Someone started to once, then they read my posts here and other places, realized what I was worth and gave it back and said they were above stealing my identity. I was hurt but could not argue with their logic?

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PO3 Christopher Jonah Nelson

Posted 8 y ago

The only time I've ever had an issue with someone trying to steal my identity was when someone, like you're describing above, tried to use my name to set up an account.

Unfortunately for this person, I work with computers a lot, and I traced their connection, looked them up in the public ISP database (if you're gonna be black hat, folks, take your stuff off of the public access list), and reported their home address to the FBI, along with all of the data that I'd collected regarding their attempt to set up a false identity under my name.

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