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I was engaged to a guy who turned out to be a pathological liar and went to jail. He had been

engaged to another woman while he was engaged

to me. He was a doctor in the military. He deceived people there. So he was duping people

and stealing the identities of people left and right. And that's when I thought, this guy's

nuts. He's insane. And he's trying to make me even, you know, more insane and it's not going to

happen. Welcome to how to. I'm David Epstein.

Have you ever had your identity stolen?

Unfortunately, the odds are that even if you haven't, someone you know has.

Someone in America falls prey to identity theft every two seconds.

And now with the pandemic putting so many people in financially

desperate situations, cybercrooks have been running rampant. Now, a lot of identity theft is

really just an inconvenience. Maybe you have to freeze a credit card, change a password,

but for our listener this week, it has completely upended her life. Meet Casey from Texas.

That's not her real name, and soon you'll understand why.

My husband was a recent victim of identity theft.

His social security number was compromised,

and we have been working on trying to unravel all of that.

It all started in September when Casey and her husband got a letter from their bank about a

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