Ben Bernanke ID Theft: Wife's Purse Stolen

Ben Bernanke ID Theft: Wife's Purse Stolen

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke has become an ironically high profile victim of ID theft, after his wife's purse and wallet were stolen.

The info in his wife's stolen purse apparently let these thieves set up to use the Bernanke's bank account and start making out checks from it. one wonders whether the criminals knew whose name they were messing with, when they wrote those checks?

Ben Bernanke ID Theft: Wife's Purse Stolen
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No one is safe from identity theft, not even the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Ben Bernanke's personal checking August 28, 2009account became entangled in an elaborate identity-theft scheme after his wife Anna's purse was stolen last August. According to a District of Columbia police report, it contained her Social Security card, checkbook, credit cards and IDs...

 

Ben Bernanke ID Theft: Wife's Purse Stolen

Posted at August 28, 2009 10:14 AM