rockymountainnews.com
When Vanessa Caraveo went to pick up her medication two months ago at a Walgreens store in El Paso, Texas, she found herself on the tail end of an interrogation.
By the pharmacist.
"She asked me if I was from Greeley, Colo.," Caraveo recalled. "It seems someone was using my name to get medication."
Caraveo has never lived in Colorado.
The encounter at the drugstore confirmed for the 29-year-old Texas sales clerk what she'd feared for a decade - that someone was using her name and private information.
Caraveo first realized she was the victim of identity theft 10 years ago when the Internal Revenue Service notified her that she owed taxes on earnings she knew nothing about.
Posted by tyne at December 14, 2006