"Identity Thief" opened solidly despite the winter storm that buried much of the U.S. Northeast.
The IRS often has no way of knowing that the first return received is from an identity thief.
It pays to know about identity theft as soon as it happens, to prevent the identity thief from wreaking more havoc.
Identity Thief, Sandy Patterson (the ever affable Jason Bateman) has his identity stolen by Diana (the very funny Melissa McCarthy).
Those are questions that an identity thief would have a hard time answering if all the thief had to go on were the contents of your stolen wallet.
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And in many ways, that's absolutely true, and that is because if the identity thief is good at what he or she does, all roads will lead back to the victim.
That way, your computer will never get infected, nor will it be turned into a zombie ready to do the illicit bidding of some scam artist, identity thief, mail spammer or child pornographer.
After a little public witness intimidation on Facebook, Camp contacted a potential buyer in New York for the University of Central Missouri identities, not realizing that the purported identity thief was actually an undercover agent.
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The consumer can then red-flag his credit files and consult the Equifax fraud specialist about how to prevent the identity thief from opening up new accounts, taking out loans or making big-ticket purchases in the customer's name.
"Identity Thief" came in above industry expectations despite the storm and poor reviews for the comedy, which stars Bateman as a man chasing down a con artist (McCarthy) who has racked up thousands of dollars of charges in his name.
Her first star vehicle, "Identity Thief, " is not likely to be remembered as anyone's triumph (it's scoring in the 20-something percentile on the critics' aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes), but at least it does enough to show that McCarthy has what it takes.
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