Pompano Beach Letter Carrier Grace Perry had a letter addressed to a person that she has never seen before. The customer met her at the mailbox and requested this one piece of mail for "her uncle." Perry could tell that it was a credit card, but since the person's name was not on the mailbox, she brought it back to the Post Office. Plus the customer said she could not bring her uncle and his ID to the mailbox.
Back at the Post Office, Perry contacted the Postal Inspection Service was notified. Inspector Alvarez investigated and learned that the person on the address was an elderly man in New Jersey. Turns out that the elderly man had been robbed and his identity stolen. He notified his financial institution that his bank account information, along with his credit cards, had been stolen. The inspector followed up with the information and now there are two people in custody for identity thief.
Perry's alertness saved this man from the possibility an additional $10,000.00 of credit card fraud.
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