Here is a joke that’s not so funny ↓
On the bottom of a monthly statement it says, “Enjoy extra free time each month, pay bills with your credit card at our website.” (I’m not saying the company’s name since that info is irrelevant.)
Just above that line, it says, “Help protect your credit, sign up for the privacy assist premier service to help fight identity theft. Learn more at our website today.”
Obviously whenever you’re asked to “sign up” for for a service, it’s not free. That means (if you’re not financially wealthy) you will need to spend more time at work to earn the money needed to buy their identity theft insurance. So then how can that person be enjoying extra free time each month by paying his bills online when he has to purchase protection for doing so?
The bigger question is, “Why do innocent people have to suffer consequences (by being pressured to buy identity theft insurance) while the guilty get to enjoy stealing others’ good credit to use for their own pleasure (and then when they’re done, they sell that info to someone else who wants to do the same crime?!)?”
If you don’t know why these kinds of trends happen, it’s because those in society who are responsible for making criminals to be accountable fall into the temptation to look for the easiest and fastest way out of each case so they can then “look good” at their job. Generally speaking, whenever law enforcement personnel think they can accomplish blaming innocent people by knowing that their victims lack the resources to find out who the guilty really are (as in the case of identity thieves), they’re going to take advantage of such situations.
The more that people resort to buying identity theft insurance, the less these ‘identity’ criminals will be persecuted.
