1510: How to Disappear Revisited

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dartanyon A. Williams (DAW) stole his parents’ identities at the age of 15. Unfortunately, they weren’t his last victims. Dartanyon, who also goes by DAW, claims he has stolen thousands of identities. So many that he’s lost count. It’s rare to hear firsthand from an identity thief. In this episode, Dartanyon How to steal someone’s identity How did he do it? He had many tactics. But the most proven technique was paying off restaurant employees, car dealerships, and tax preparation companies. These employees served as double agents. When no one was looking, they would collect customers' social security numbers and smuggle them to DAW. Today, DAW’s life of crime is behind him. He even ran for Congress for the U.S. House of Representatives. How to protect your identity These days, it’s just as easy to steal your identity from a breached database. Everything an identity thief needs to steal your identity is already online. What can you do to protect yourself? Click here to see if your email has been involved in a breached database: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ Freezing your credit and setting up a fraud alert I’ve taken the extreme step of freezing my credit. It’s actually not really that extreme. In fact, it’s quite easy. In this episode, you’ll hear how simple it is to lock down your credit so that no one can assume your identity. Michael Bazzell, a privacy consultant, walks me through the credit freeze process. For more details, download his step-by-step guide. Essentially, get a free credit report from one of the credit bureaus, then ask them to freeze your credit. This way, no one can open a line of credit under your name. If you ever need to unfreeze your credit, it’s easy. Just unfreeze your credit by going online or with a quick phone call. Equifax Online: https://www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/credit-freeze/ Experian Online: https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html TransUnion Online: https://service.transunion.com/dss/orderStep1_form.page If you just stumbled on this page, start with part 1. Michael Bazzell To learn more about Michael Bazzell, check out his website IntelTechniques.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creative Apple.
0:06.0	Hey there, it's Javier.
0:07.5	I am working on season 16 of Pretend.
0:10.8	I have so many great stories for you guys and I've recorded almost all of them but they're all like in different stages of completion and I am also coming back from the holidays and I was sick so it kind of threw me off. So today, so I have a little bit more time to work on this new season.
0:30.0	I am going to play you one of my favorite episodes.
0:32.8	It's actually part four of my How to Disappear series.
0:36.4	So if you haven't listened to that series, it's fantastic.
0:39.2	But this one will make you even more paranoid than the rest of them.
0:44.3	Because this is actually a scan that could happen to you.
0:48.0	And you need to learn how to disappear.
0:50.1	Yeah, every single one of you listening to right now has to disappear just a little bit.
0:55.0	So let's play this episode that I haven't listened to in a long time and I listen to it this morning and wow, it, even for me I I don't ever listen to my show but I just
1:06.7	wanted to refresh my memory and this was awesome this was a great episode I'm
1:10.1	super proud of this one and I know that I got a lot of feedback from it so I hope you enjoy
1:15.7	we'll be back hopefully next week with a brand new episode it's about the 32 year old
1:21.7	woman who pretended to be a junior high school kid in Boston.
1:26.4	Yeah, totally nuts.
1:28.8	All right, let's play the episode. I'm D'Artagnan A Williams.
1:36.6	Do you go by D'A.
1:37.6	No, sir.
1:38.6	I do go by DAW, which are the initials or D'Artagnan Williams.
1:43.0	Tell me about the first time that you even got the idea that you were going to steal somebody's identity.
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