Identity Theft... What's up with that?

07.09.03 - 01:10am
 
So, either I am a sleep walker with alternative hand writing and a fascination for depositing personal cheques into other peoples accounts... or someone is stealing from me.

Alternative hand writing?
Depositing cheques?
Stealing?

I know... I'll say it for you, "what's up with that?"

Now I'm no chemist, but I think I know when I being robbed.

The most sleep walking I've done in my life is turning the wrong way and ending up in the kitchen and urinating on the fridge as a very young boy. (True Story)
So we can rule out sleep walking as being a possibility.

Sadly, I must admit that I am temporarily unemployed and living off the gracious tax dollars of my fellow Canadians. I am thankful for your Employment Insurance, don't get me wrong, that is why I feel it is my duty to become a super sleuth and protect your tax dollars from fraud.

I thought, what are the chances that someone else in my region has the same name and/or initials as me. I decide to investigate via Canada411 and I do find someone. Who would have thought that I would have found a match?? Alas... it is my father and after close examination, his chicken scratch writing does not match that on the signed cheque.

According to my local government office, I have been depositing my cheques with prompt regularity, much like a good unemployed citizen would. There's a catch however. As discussed previously, I do not sleep walk and I can assure you that I have only one form of hand writing.... meaning that someone has been generously depositing these cheques for me.

They seem to have the account numbers wrong though, because they have been depositing them into their personal account and not into my account as the government body has informed me.

Again, I'm no chemist, but if I were stealing government cheques from someone, I personally wouldn't deposit them at the same banking institution, and I would be sure I wasn't depositing them into my personal account. I would at least make some effort to make sure that the cheque could not be traced back to myself.

This thief is clever though...
The cheques don't even arrive in my mailbox, so they are intercepted before I have a chance to deposit them myself.

Having said that, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing right at my local post office as to where the scene of the crime is taking place.

But who am I to make accusations?

I will be leaving this in the capable hands of the local police force.
Yes, Chief Wiggums and Office Bar Brady will get to the bottom of this for me and bring the culprit to justice!