Do credit card companies really care about identity theft fraud?
Credit card companies don't give a rat's ass.
That's the conclusion I've reached after years of doing stunts like The Credit Card Prank, where I forged fake names to credit card receipts, and The Visa Prank, where dim-witted customer service representatives let me break into credit card accounts.
So when I got an offer in the mail for a new "IdentityMonitor" service from Citi, which supposedly protects you from identity theft, I laughed. First, because I was sure it wouldn't work. Second,
because they were offering it to one of my own stolen identities: