Roommate taking pics of my car, specifically my VIN, registration and plate…
Hi,
Dealing with a crazy roommate situation. You can read my former post here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdentityTheft/s/hOIUacbOKR
New situation: today I’m in my room calling different apartment complexes so that I can move away from here, and I catch her outside taking photographs of the windshield of my car, specifically the registration and the VIN. I asked her what the fuck she’s doing, she claims all kinds of bullshit, first it’s because she wants to know if I really am who I say I am, second, she wants to make sure my car isn’t stolen – I tell her to stay the fuck away from my stuff, she calls the police on me and tries to get me arrested because I yelled at her lol, the police don’t do shit because there’s nothing to arrest me on, and that’s about the end of that. Afterwards, I went to the police station and filed a report about this because I’m concerned that she’s trying to steal my VIN number and registration for some nefarious purpose given her past history as a career felon.
My car is fully paid off; it’s a newer car. The title and all of my documentation such as my Social Security card and my birth certificate, etc., are in a locked safe over at my cousin’s house nearby – I cannot stay with him unfortunately because there are some issues with him that are personal that I’m not gonna discuss on Reddit.
Anyhow, so what I’ve done is I have done the following:
* I have covered my VIN with a piece of printer paper inside the vehicle, so it cannot be moved;
* I put my car tarp on my car so that she cannot access it anymore;
* My title and all of my information about my car is over at my cousin’s house;
I then went to the police station and reported this behavior because I am concerned she’s going to use my VIN and registration to do something nefarious.
My vehicle is still registered in New York State. It is now in Texas. My title, registration, and plate are from New York State – my car insurance is here in Texas (I’m swapping it soon but am moving back to NY at the end of the fall so I may just keep all of my stuff registered in NY state). My license is still a NY state license. Again, she and the landlord kept on taunting me that I’m taking all this too seriously and that I’m the problem – the landlord is probably in on this bullshit too because he’s also sketchy as fuck, and here’s the issue – in my last post as I explained, the landlord and his son evicted her about four years ago for causing issues with other tenants and not paying rent. She came back onto the property legally, and they had her arrested for criminal trespass. After all that happened, for some crazy reason, they allowed her to move back onto the property rent free. I don’t know what the fuck is going on, but it sounds very fucking weird to me, and it seems sketchy as fuck and I am getting out of here. I’m taking the whole week off of work just get the fuck out of here. Anyhow, here are my questions (Sorry about this long fucking rant):
One, what can she do with my VIN and registration that I need to be worried about?
Two, what do I need to be doing to protect myself?
Thank you for the reading. hate this. If anybody knows of any fucking place with immediate occupancy around the Dallas, Texas area please let me know. JFC.