Professor’s ID stolen; $22,000 gone
When University of Virginia professor Patrick Grant opened his mailbox on May 23 to find three letters from Bank of America informing him that they would not raise his credit limit, he knew his identity had been stolen.
“I got one of those gut-wrenching feelings that this is really, really wrong,” Grant said.
Grant, a professor of microchemistry and molecular genetics, had never asked Bank of America to raise the limit on his credit card. Someone else must have done it. Someone else, he realized, must have access to his credit account. In the hours that followed, a picture of what happened began to emerge.
