Stolen Identity
I heard the case of stolen identity before. It even happen to my good friend few years ago. Someone bought a car with her check. How he can get access to her checking account??? I don’t know. But yeah.., this thing happen and we should be aware of it.
My case is much more simple than that…but still I felt robbed. Here is my stories..
At home, I rarely log out from my yahoo account. It’s a family computer so my daughter, Nabila, has an access to it. One day, she creates an avatar without me knowing. Well, she mentions about it couple of time.., but I thought…Well, no harm in that, right?? One day, I just happen to look at my own avatar…OMG, you know what? It was a girl with a tank top and skimpy skirt with her belly showing. It looks like she was in Madigra party!!! I talk to Nabila and tell her that is SO not me. What if my friend saw it…, what will they think of me? The avatar should represent me…, not anybody else!
I tried to change my avatar couple of time. It failed and I don’t know why!! I guessed I’m just being technologically challenge. Plus, I can’t be in the computer for so long..
I said, "Could you please change it to someone looks more like me?".
Nabila realized what she did could ruin my reputation:), and said, "OK mama, I’ll change it." Then, she created an avatar with a hijab.". I said,"There you go.., that’s look more like your mama.Next time, don’t mess with my account, OK. Just do your own thing in your own account." Nabila…Nabila…Nabila….
The second one just happen last week. Nabila was texting her grandpa, using my cell, asking for webkinz and whatnot. Then, for some reasons she just want to "say Hi" to all my friends on the address list. She sent a cute animated picture with it.., a sound " Ta Da’. and a text hi. I still don’t know what’s going on, till I got several calls and texts from my friends. They were like, " Vivi, what’s this?". Then, I checked my sent folder and saw what Nabila has sent. I was so not happy with it…Can you imagine it..?!! She even sent the text to one of the NYC masjid’s Imam. The imam even reply the text and call. I apologize to the Imam and said, " I’m sorry, it was my daughter.."
I was so so mad with her…I said never to use my cell phone again except to text grandpa. I told her that the Imam called me wondering what’s going on..".
She felt so bad and felt so embarrassed. I think she learned her lesson, me too, of course.., I need to be careful when granted any access to anything to my kids. They have so much curiosity and creativity than what we could imagine. What we think harmless could turn in to something….
Hope everyone can learn from my mistakes….
