On top of that, my account at the Bank of America has been suspended until I verify my account number and personal information. If that wasn't bad enough, my recent Amazon order has been cancelled because my payment was rejected. And, my order will be cancelled unless I provide another method of payment. If all that wasn't bad enough, Verizon will not ship my FREE IPHONE until I verify my account by clicking on the link provided.

Unfortunately, the bad news didn't end there. T-Mobile will suspend my service unless I click the link and verify my information. And, the bad news didn't end with T-Mobile. My Capital One account has been billed $7,500. The instructions say: "Click the link below to verify or deny payment." Fortunately, I don't have a Consumer Cellular, Bank of America, Capital One, Verizon, or T-Mobile account. I haven't ordered anything from Amazon recently, and I know the IRS isn't holding up a refund.

People fall for email scams because some of the emails look legitimate or professional. In fact, thieves are getting bolder and more sophisticated as technology increases. In fact, some scammers already have the name, age, address, phone number, and Social Security number of their victims before they make contact; thanks to advancements in information and communication technology.

Moreover, several years ago, I received a voice message that said the IRS had issued a warrant for my arrest, and I had 24 just hours to pay the IRS $1200 dollars.

I didn't call the number given in the voice mail. Instead, I called the local IRS office, and they informed me that it was a scam. Phone scams, like the IRS scam, is the reason I don't answer my phone if I don't know the caller, and I don't return calls to phone numbers in voice messages or emails. If I don't know the caller, the call goes straight to voice mail, and like all the phishing emails, it gets deleted.

In addition, last week, I received a professional looking email, with a White House Logo, that stated: "The Trump Administration has frozen your Social Security account until you verify your citizenship and eligibility. If you fail to respond, your Social Security account will be permanently suspended, and your name will be forwarded for deportation."

I knew immediately that the email was from someone with the IQ of a congressional Democrat, but it was still alarming because they included my full name, complete address, and Social Security number in the email. How did they get my personal information? Well, there's many ways to get someone's personal information. There's corporate and government data breaches, although corporations and the government should not have their employee's and customer's personal information online or even accessible on the internet.

There are also data collecting organizations like Spokeo, Intelius, Peoplefinders, Beenverified, and many more that specialize in collecting and selling the personal information of every American. These data collecting organizations will sell any personal information they collect to anyone willing to pay their fees, and that includes selling personal information to scammers -criminals.

Yes, criminals can buy your personal information from internet organizations that make a living by collecting and selling your personal information, and that should be against the law. These internet organizations are no better than the criminals that buy our personal information from them. How did I make that conclusion? Well, I knowingly called a scammer to see how much personal information he had, and to my surprise, he knew everything about me except my bank account and credit card numbers, and he was trying to obtain that information from me.

To my surprise, he sent a personal photo, and said, "That's you, isn't it?" He admitted the only thing he needed was the name of the bank I use and the account number to rob me. He warned, "Unless you use cash for everything, your bank account and credit card numbers will eventually become public knowledge. He also warned me that he could sell my information to other scammers."

When I asked him how he managed to get my name and personal information, he admitted, "I bought a list and your name and address was on it". As i understood it, he took names from the list and searched for them on the internet. If the search returned a match with the same name and address as the list, then he bought the personal information from personal data brokers. He said, "Your personal data and picture is available online, and anyone can buy your information from a number of information providers."

For the record, internet organizations should not be allowed to openly collect and sell the personal information of individuals. I thought it was unconstitutional (against the law of the land) to violate an individual's right to privacy. That's because the right to privacy supports individual autonomy and personal freedom. The right to privacy should provide every American with the ability to keep their personal or private information out of the public domain and beyond the reach of criminals.

Furthermore, if criminals can access my personal information, they can also access your personal information. If they can violate my right to privacy, they can also violate your right to privacy. That means nobody is safe from criminals that profit from stealing the identity and wealth of others. Criminals can gather our information and use it to steal the bread from our mouths and the roof over our heads. They can steal every dime we have, if our right to privacy isn't protected.

Finally, if Congress continues to sit by and do absolutely nothing to stop internet organizations from gathering and selling our personal information to criminals, who use it to steal our identity and our wealth, then Congress is an accomplice to all identity thefts that result in monetary loss. That's because members of Congress have known about this scam for years, and they haven't done anything to stop it. I rest my case!