An Identity Theft Scam Stole Half My Net Worth—What I Learned & How to Prevent It

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Money with Katie

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

“Miss Gatti, are you traveling?” was the phrase that began one of the most stressful financial sagas of my life. Because as I'd come to learn, I’d become the victim of an elaborate “middleman” scam. Here's the play-by-play of what went down, and what I learned along the way. This week’s episode is a fun jolt of schadenfreude at my expense, so listen if you’d like to laugh while you learn. Transcripts, resources, show credits, and more can be found at https://moneywithkatie.com/identity-theft-scam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Getting my identity stolen in 2019 was my first moment as a breakout hashtag internet
0:09.5	star.
0:10.5	I posted about the experience in real time and I brought my couple thousand personal
0:15.3	followers on my personal Instagram account along for the ride with me as I ran all over
0:20.5	town to the credit union to chase bank to the police station back to the credit union.
0:26.7	I wanted to talk about why I'm not going to post anything today.
0:31.0	I always post new money blogs every Wednesday and ever since I started I haven't really
0:36.4	leaked mis today so I wanted to address why I'm not posting something because it's actually
0:41.2	kind of interesting and also money related.
0:43.4	I'm sitting in the bank parking lot right now trying to figure out what I need to do now
0:46.8	to get this money back but it's kind of a mess obviously and the time that I was going
0:51.9	to spend yesterday riding this blog about oil cleansing and moisturizing didn't happen.
0:57.7	So I appreciate your patience and I might end up just writing a blog about this and
1:01.9	what to do if someone gets your debit card information and steals almost 10 grand from
1:07.1	you.
1:08.1	I'll keep you guys posted again thank you for your patience and yeah it's been a day.
1:15.2	Today's going to be a fun little story time.
1:21.0	I'll never forget it.
1:22.0	It was April 1st so like the worst April fools joke in history and I was running late
1:27.6	to a 515 PM yoga sculpt class after work.
1:32.5	So at 513 PM I'm with in my car through side streets I'm trying desperately to make this
1:37.3	class not to be late and as I sped down Henderson Avenue in Dallas my phone starts bringing over
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