United Pilot Arrested

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liebhabe

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Just heard this on the news.

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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) -- A Vancouver, Washington pilot for United Airlines has been arrested on suspicion of identity theft.

Neighbors say the house on Evergreen Highway was raided last week by dozens of local and federal agents. Authorities say the man who lives there is Seifuldeine (Sue-ful-dean) Abassi. Abassi apparently got a credit card in the name of his one-year-old son.

Abassi is a commercial pilot for United, but officials say he is now suspended.
 
Greeeat. If this cat was a bus driver for Greyhound, it wouldn't have even made the local news.
 
A new "blame the pilot" story for ya Doug!
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I'd heard many pilots have side businesses........
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Agree though, if this was a Greyhound driver, this thread wouldn't exist.
 
I can see it already. I'll go upstairs and get some "Paschals" before my flight departs and I'll have a gate agent walk up to me and start with the "You Pah-lotts been stealing po'h innocent people's indentifications. Ya'll evil, all ya'll!"
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dude he's from Wharshington what'd you expect?
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Agree though, if this was a Greyhound driver, this thread wouldn't exist.

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Well duh....this isn't BusCareers!



Or is it???
 
close... it's "glorified overpaid buscareers"
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I've heard that a lot of families get credit cards in the name of their children sent to them "approved".. the credit card companies are always trying to get you into debt and will even send a minor a credit card app... what makes you think it was the dad that made the mistake and not the credit card companies fault for first off - sending a minor a credit card app and/or credit card and secondly - not "checking into it"... they should't have sent the kid an application in the first place is my bet! just my 0.02
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Kristie and I have a friend whose father got credit cards under his daughters name. But didn't make the news!
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It wouldn't suprise me!

I think in an average day we get from three to five credit card offers per day. Figure a six day mailing week, that's 30/week and up to 1500/year if you look at it in a macro sense.
 
That's why we submitted written letters to the DMA (Direct Marketing Association) to opt-out. It took about 6-8 weeks, but the pre-approved credit offers slowed, and then finally stopped. We haven't recieved a credit offer in months. We were even recieving credit offers for people who don't even live here, those have stopped too. The only owners of our house have been us and Bill's parents, who built the place in the early 70's. So it wasn't a 'previous resident' thing.

The opt-out address is on the DMAs website if you want to send a letter. In my opinion, highly worth the time to write!
 
I did the DMA thing last year, but we haven't yet for Kristie. Considering we've got myself, Kristie (under both her maiden name and her married name) and two businesses, we do A LOT of shredding!

Amazingly our PO box gets almost zero junk mail. DM's figure if it's a PO box, why bother!
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Hey Doug -

Any advice on a good shredder? We get enough junk email for our business in one day that I just want to put the whole envelope in, I can't even stand to open them anymore!
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I went thru about a shredder every two months. But we've got a (lemme go check) Tech Solutions 12-sheet crosscut that has lasted nicely about two years.
 
Burn, don't shred. You need a contained burn which will reduce the paper to ash. Just don't let it get airborne, otherwise that crap will be everywhere. Trust me, my Dad worked in Federal Law Enforcement for 34 years, much of it handling Identity Theft. I know a LOT on the subject. Shredding does NOTHING. People will pick up entire bags of shredded paper and spend hours piecing it all together, just for one bank account or one credit card.

Matches and a containment can are much cheaper than shredders as well.
 
I think the biggest piece our shredder produces is about the size of half a piece of macaroni, but good point!

Only problem is that I live in a no-burn area. Not wood, paper, nada.
 
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