How To Steal Back Your Identity

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Ever since Casey's husband had his identity stolen, Casey hasn't been able to relax. She spends late nights and weekends obsessively checking their family bank accounts and scouring the web for information on the thieves who live just 15 minutes from her house. The police told Casey that an arrest is unlikely, so how can she find closure and move on with her life? On this episode of How To!, we bring on Abby Ellin, journalist and the author of Duped, who experienced a personal betrayal of her own—almost marrying a con man. Abby shares what she learned about getting over a breach of trust when there's no resolution in sight. The bottom line: You have to create your own kind of closure. Don't let the thief steal any more of your time.

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0:00.0	Heard about Magpie, the vegan pie truck that needed a bit of help from Go Daddy.
0:03.4	One day the owners are like, this business hasn't reached this potential.
0:07.2	And the other one goes, we need a bigger piece of the pie.
0:09.9	And then it hits her.
0:11.1	We need Go Daddy. Look, we can get a domain name and create an online store
0:14.8	so we can sell to more customers. Now they've gone from serving a couple of pies to
0:19.3	flogging nationwide. And now everyone's like, vegan pies are the new thing around here.
0:25.0	Wait no meat. Take the next step on your business journey with go daddy.
0:30.0	This is meant to be an ad for the Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5,
0:34.0	how it stands up perfectly on a desk for business calls
0:37.2	and has a larger cover screen for emails.
0:39.5	But we've got one in the studio, so our sound engineer Brian is distracted.
0:43.6	He's not even listening look.
0:45.2	Flannel, pomegranate, weasel.
0:48.3	The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip-5 for business.
0:51.2	Unfold the Wonder. Available now at Samsung Business Shop.
0:55.0	Yeah, very good. Perfect take.
1:00.0	I was engaged to a guy who turned out to be a pathological liar and went to jail.
1:06.0	He had been engaged to another woman while he was engaged to me.
1:09.0	He was a doctor in the military. He deceived people there.
1:11.0	So he was duping people and stealing the
1:13.4	identities of people left and right and that's when I thought this guy's nuts he's
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