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I also received this letter. But what do you mean by credit freeze?

acariux

That's insane!  Can anyone explain the logic behind this?

My advice is to make sure your mother (and you!) sign up for an ID theft tracking service that tracks the various credit bureau agencies.  Here in the USA, many of these services, offer the first year of service at a steep discount, so carefully shipping (shopping!) around might result in saving some serious money.

Stardog2

Not answering your question, but Get your police check for Korea before you leave. I had a colleague who didn’t, and it was a nightmare for her to get one for her PGCE in the UK. 

I also remember having to tell the police in Korea it was for a new job in Korea, not because I’m leaving, or something like that.

Proper_Sink_6219

https://reliabilityscreening.ca/

I’ve used these guys a few times. What I’ve done is gone to my local police department in Korea to get my fingerprints. In Korea, I simply translate it for the police that the fingerprints are for a criminal background check in Canada. Then I mail it to reliability screening and they get it authenticated by the RCMP. I did this from Korea for a job in China. I found them very reliable.

deekman81

Have you checked the RCMP website about getting a check from abroad?

Blackkwidow1328

Pretty sure the fingerprints are required, especially if you need to get it legalized / authenticated (which is likely for China). 

I've done it. I used Commissionaires. 

https://commissionaires.ca/en/services/international-fingerprinting/

LiGuangMing1981

I've got a police check from Canada.

I managed to get it done without needing finger prints.

This is from a few years ago and I've just copied the email following my comment and I can PM you the link if you like.

I have given this to my current school and had no issues.

Edit: I used Worldwide Forensic Services Inc.


"We can help to obtain basic name and date of birth based police check from a Canadian Police office.

 

The cost of our service is $80.00/per request (including the fee charged by the police office)


Please fill out the attached application and email it to us with notarized coloured copies of two IDs. Please visit this link to see a list of acceptable IDs.


We will email you a PDF version of the police letter within 24 hours. 


Some of the authorities may not accept basic name and date of birth based check and may need a fingerprint based check."

ringadingdingbaby

I feel like the recruiter isn’t telling you the right thing. I (American) left Vietnam for China in fall 2023. Because I had been living in Vietnam for the previous 5 years I used the criminal check from there. My school did require an FBI check for safeguarding purposes, but that was not used for my visa/work permit.

tradermjb

Hey everyone,

Thank you for the responses.

I went through a company called Triton Canada (https://www.tritoncanada.ca/criminal-record-checks/) that does criminal background checks without the need for fingerprints.

Took less than a day to receive the results

Unknown_rep_of_nomad

Hey there is no need to to that finger print stuff and so on. 

Where do you live in Canada? Just get one from your local police station. You can write up the paper work, sign it, have a friend get it for you; I did that when I needed to get one from the Toronto Police Force.

Ok_Tangelo_6070

Hi I am trying to do the same as you would u still say Triton Canada is good enough? &gt;.&lt; halp

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And service providers wonder why customers get weird about sharing information with them that they don't need. 

It's the circular argument - need to verify your identity to ensure your are who you say you are, and then ensure it can't be leaked to someone else for inappropriate purposes.

Defiant_Try9444

Organised crime gangs have been placing moles inside companies to gain protected information that is used to commit serious and violent crimes including extortion, drug trafficking and attempted murder.

The infiltration of these organisations – via workers such as customer service and call centre staff, real estate agents and lawyers – has been flagged as a significant threat by federal and state law enforcement agencies.

Underworld sources say addresses and personal details can be bought from insiders working in businesses for as little as $250.
Underworld sources say addresses and personal details can be bought from insiders working in businesses for as little as $250.Credit: Marija Ercegovac

The underworld has access to compromised workers who sell personal information for as little as $250 or have been embedded inside companies specifically to “leak” to criminal syndicates, according to five police and underworld sources with direct knowledge of the problem.

The information has been used to set up attempted hits and bashings, to run extortions and to create fake identities used in a host of crimes.

This masthead is aware of one major crime syndicate that runs massive drug-trafficking and tobacco-smuggling operations by accessing a publicly available database to obtain the locations of enemies.

“There’s this idea that you have to find some corrupt government worker who can get inside these closely guarded systems. That’s just not right any more; it’s not how it happens most now,” said an underworld source, who cannot be identified speaking about criminal activity.

Jailed crime boss George Marrogi is also suspected of using insiders to obtain the addresses of his enemies.
Jailed crime boss George Marrogi is also suspected of using insiders to obtain the addresses of his enemies.

“People give out their information like free lollies to whoever when they sign up for a hundred different services – real estate listings, toll accounts, telcos, streamers, online shopping, loyalty programs – it’s held f---ing everywhere.

“Almost anyone can be gotten to. You just have to have the connections. You find them. They’re around.”

These corrupted agents, known in law enforcement parlance as “trusted insiders”, have traditionally been a problem in government agencies such as licensing authorities and for organisations connected to the ports and airports where large-scale smuggling takes place.

But the problem has now become a serious issue for private companies and commercial service providers that have amassed huge amounts of personal information but lack adequate safeguards, sources say.

Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission deputy chief executive of intelligence Matthew Rippon described this ability of organised crime to penetrate information systems as a “significant and enduring risk”.

“There are deliberate strategies to infiltrate particular sectors to be able to ensure that their access to particular parts of the supply chain, to data and systems and access to information, and the ability to influence, is absolutely a part of that enduring [organised crime] business model,” Rippon said.

“It’s a long-term aim to infiltrate. It’s very difficult sometimes to identify trusted insiders.”

The “brass ring”, according to law enforcement and underworld sources, is to infiltrate a business or department using an associate, often a relative, who has a clean criminal record and is therefore above suspicion.

The industries most often targeted are banking, real estate, logistics and telecommunications, sources say.

“One of the big ones we have is real estate agents because agents have legitimate access to databases that can provide pretty much anyone’s home address,” said an organised crime detective, who cannot be identified publicly speaking about police operations.

Land ownership and residential addresses can be accessed through multiple different commercial information service providers and government land title departments.

A prominent gangland lawyer has been investigated – but not charged – over their possible connection to helping facilitate an attack against the family business of an enemy of a major bikie club. The lawyer’s property search account was allegedly found to have accessed the address of a property that was later trashed by the bikie club over a drug dispute. The account was also allegedly used to look up the home address of the family.

Underworld boss George Marrogi, who is serving a near 50-year prison sentence for murder and drug trafficking, was also suspected of obtaining the addresses of his enemies from an associate involved in a real estate agency.

The volume of legitimate activity accessing these internal and for-pay databases is so massive it is difficult to detect if someone is searching a name or address for a nefarious purpose, investigators say.

Slain gangland figure Nabil Maghnie, pictured in 2016, was suspected of having accessed personal information held by a major telco.
Slain gangland figure Nabil Maghnie, pictured in 2016, was suspected of having accessed personal information held by a major telco.Credit: Joe Armao

Gangland figure Nabil Maghnie, who was shot dead in January 2020 in a crime that remains unsolved, was also suspected of having accessed personal information held by a major telco company after an associate became a franchise operator for one of the mobile networks.

“It’s almost impossible to detect unless you can start with the person who is providing the information. A handful of data breaches can easily remain hidden when someone is doing dozens of client record searches every day – and there are a lot of commercial services to choose from,” the detective said.

jiggyco

Thank God the government knows best and will use our data to.....protect ourselves from ourselves?

bananarepublic1994

But we need age verification to watch porn soon, this will protect us

beepo7654

HeungMin-Dad

A dodgy bloke i know has access to an associates real estate search portal

gongbattler

cool and government want to force us to give websites our ID

EvilRobot153

It's not a new practice, I heard of this when I was working in a call centre for a large telco 20 years ago. 

ScopiH

I haven't changed my address from my parents home since I left home at 16 -  I still have a redirection.

FairyPenguinStKilda

This story reminds me of that Data Dealer game. 

https://datadealer.com

I suppose it is up to our elected legislators to summon enough courage to enact laws like 'a right to be forgotten' to protect individuals data even if their big business lobbyist donors don't like it.

Total_Drongo_Moron

What's with the constant posting of paywalled articles?

nonchalantpony

Unfortunately our leaders make the underworld look like childs play to which they have their fingers in as well. The world is far beyond corruption now where the only thing left to get rid of such behaviour is a noah type event.

Timely_Inspection_80

Back in the day we'd use the White Pages if we needed to contact someone.

ImpressNo5609

SithLordRising

When Victoria is essentially run by the CFMEU and their bikie gangs, this is the culture that is built.

nuocchammm

Albo the Squanderer will fix it.  
First, he will have a summit to discuss the issue, somewhere warm with nice beaches- like Bali.

Then, he will appoint a task force of comrades who have supported the ALP in media and at elections.

Next, he will establish a department to stamp out such corruption, staffed by more comrades, of course.

Then he will request the ABC speak kind words about the department and the evils of organised crimes- the cost to buy more grace from the ABC will be only be a $100mn rise to the ABC's bloated annual budget.

Finally, he will ask E-Karen who it is exactly who writes the truth about him online and E-Karen will give him a list of our names. He will then task the fed police, via back channels, to look into us, in a quest to discover organised crime links.

Welcome to Asstrailer.  
YOU voted for this.

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What are the events leading up to the hack? You don't just get hacked. You either fell for a scam or reused the same password.

Unless you were also scammed to install some malware, the mic and camera issues are likely just coincidences. r/findareddit for the platform you use.

seedless0

Don't pay. Don't answer at all. Make it clear that he's getting *nothing whatsoever* from you.

Just move on.

WickedWeedle

Use MFA on EVERYTHING. It’s a game changer and it’s free usually.

tekvine

The email is a common scam email sent out to thousands. It’s not specific to you - they just spoof the “from” email address.

The camera/microphone stuff is just a technical glitch co-incidence.

You also weren’t “hacked”, someone got hold of your passwords, either through a data breech, or phishing. No one accessed your computer.

You’ve already changed your passwords, enable 2FA where you can as well, and you should be fine.

Just have to figure out what’s up with the camera/microphone now.

Nick_W1

Hmm 🤔  this is a one day old account. This story reads like fiction. Plus, the em dashes. Yes, I know they existed before LLMs but now they're very much a dead giveaway that this feels like a prompt. 

I mean you were wealthy enough to have 6 figures in savings but you also were a coke head. You left after 5 days but he was on you for a month?

If this is real, I'm sorry this happened to you. Seek legal advice. 

If not, bruh you know this sub is full of gullible young people, many of whom are from non Western nations. They already think poorly of other gay men and here you are putting out this AI generated fiction.

throwawayhbgtop81

There were more than just red flags at the start, it was basically all the NATO alarms going off at once warning that a nuclear missile was coming. Still, it seems to me you didn’t want to see or hear any of it and just sat back as if everything was perfectly normal. The blame isn’t always on others, sometimes we’ve got to be brave enough to admit our own responsibilities.

Andro_lover2005

You were admittedly already using coke, used him for drugs, had him teach you how to cook crack. You were smoking crack while driving and crashed your expensive car, which you’d let the insurance lapse on, replaced it with a $126k new car. He says “you’re fucking nuts and I’m leaving unless you go to rehab!” You picked one that was “up to your standards” @ $273k (Miraval?) but didn’t want to change, left rehab because you didn’t like the rules, and now it’s all his fault. 

Riiiight.

itseightbysix

Give it a script treatment, sell it to Hollywood,  and make your money back.

_-NeverOddOreveN-_

Sir......I feel there were red flags from the get go and you just went with it

Frosty_Ad7840

Sounds like you needed mental health intervention prior to all this happening. He was just good at exploiting vulnerable men like you.

Johnny3653

And let me he was extremely good-looking, so all common sense went out the window.

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