Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years

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Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years​


In 2019, the real William Woods was homeless, living in Los Angeles. He went to a branch of the national bank and explained that he recently discovered someone was using his credit and had accumulated a lot of debt.

Woods didn’t want to pay the debt and asked to know the account numbers for any accounts he had open at the bank so he could close them.

Woods gave the bank employee his real Social Security card and an authentic California Identification card, which matched the information the bank had on file. Because there was a large amount of money in the accounts, the bank employee asked Woods a series of security questions that he was unable to answer.

The bank employee called Keirans, whose the phone number was connected to the accounts. He answered the security questions correctly and said no one in California should have access to the accounts.

The employee called the Los Angeles Police Department, ...

 
how does it work in America with fingerprints and bank accounts/DL's?
wouldn't they have realized it was an imposter from the fingerprints not matching?
 
I found this story extremely upsetting when I watched a video about it a couple weeks ago, so much so that I turned the video off in the middle of it and went for a walk
I would've probably done the same. :mad:
 
If I were Woods I would be lawyering up.
This. It might be of little consolation after having to go through this ordeal, but might as well aim high and try to get a lot of dough for this.
 
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