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Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature?

laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Had my identity stolen. Thief bought a car with a loan they got online. Forged my signature at the dealer half a country away. I hired a lawyer because BofA are fucking criminals.

Me: “This is clearly not my signature on this document. Doesn’t that mean anything?”

Lawyer: “Nope. Not a thing.”

WTF.

Now anything asking for my signature is squiggles unrelated to the written language.

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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
What else happened?

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- laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Went to court. Judge ruled in my favor. In the meantime I had contacted the Consumer Protection Bureau (US). Back when they had teeth and funding. BofA must have had a whole department that dealt with CPB because that shit got resolved quick. Took more than two months and around $1500 to get it cleaned up.
  
  My credit is locked at all three agencies now. Highly recommend everyone do it. The fact it isn’t locked by default is asenine.
  
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oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Obligatory “bofa deez nuts”

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