Well, I was bound and determined to start off 2007 on the right foot and it's now all of December 4 and I've already flunked.

I got a telephone call from an irate woman last night wanting to know where her money was and what the Hell did I do with the Acura. This was all news to me since I've never owned an Acura and haven't received any extra money lately.

It turns out somebody used my name and address to register a domain name, which they then used to post pictures of a car they were allegedly selling online. This woman "bought" it but then the seller disappeared and the car was relisted under a different VIN number (not its own). On the up side, as far as I can tell, whoever used my name and address has not tampered with my bank account, credit card (which luckily was canceled a few weeks ago, by accident; good time to be card-less!), or my few online accounts, but I'm watching them and changing passwords.

She's filed police reports in her own state and the state to which she was told to send the payments. I've filed a police report but I wonder how many other people think I took their money and ran, and how long it will take the police to actually do something. I'm glad this woman called me before she sued me, but I'm still completely bummed out about it all.