John Hargrave created a credit card account for a fictional person and signed up for the card’s for-fee identity theft monitoring service. Included in his suspicious behavior was a reckless shopping spree and even the purchase of a quarter-ton of fertilizer at a box store. Nothing he did set off the identity theft service. The capper of the whole experiment was a schadenfreude-filled phone call to Citi’s customer service line. Listen to the audio here as you read along.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2135638/fun-with-identity-theft.html