{"id":21501,"date":"2017-11-07T10:50:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=21501"},"modified":"2017-11-07T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:50:20","slug":"buffalo-mans-identity-stolen-after-mail-redirected-to-new-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/11\/07\/buffalo-mans-identity-stolen-after-mail-redirected-to-new-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo man\u2019s identity stolen after mail redirected to new address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/up.anv.bz\/latest\/anvload.html?key=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\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong>BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-\u00a0<\/strong>A North Buffalo man is trying to regain control of his identity. A scammer stole his personal information by manipulating the U.S. Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">He\u2019s warning others to be vigilant and calling on the USPS to change its procedures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">When Evan Cominsky got a letter in the mail from the USPS, he didn\u2019t think anything of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">It said the USPS received a change of address order and all mail would be forwarded to \u201cthe person named below\u201d, and his name was listed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cIt didn\u2019t have any new forwarding address, it just said my mail was going to continue, it looked like continue coming here,\u201d said Cominsky.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">But then their mail stopped. The Cominsky\u2019s went to the post office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cWe found out someone had been intercepting our mail for the last two months,\u201d said Melissa Cominsky, his wife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">A scammer had filled out the change of address form to have all of the mail sent across Buffalo to Fox St.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Using information found in the mail, at least two credit cards had been opened in Cominsky\u2019s name and thousands of dollars in charges racked up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased !important; margin: 0px 0px 18px; color: #454545; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u201cSomeone stole my identity and is walking around telling people they\u2019re me,\u201d said Evan Cominsky. <a href=\"http:\/\/wivb.com\/2017\/11\/06\/buffalo-mans-identity-stolen-after-mail-redirected-to-new-address\/\">WIVB TV Boston<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19084\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mail-Theft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mail-Theft.jpg 315w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mail-Theft-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)-\u00a0A North Buffalo man is trying to regain control of his identity. A scammer stole his personal information by manipulating the U.S. Postal Service. He\u2019s warning others to be vigilant and calling on the USPS to change its procedures. When Evan Cominsky got a letter in the mail from the USPS, he didn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21502,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501\/revisions\/21502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}