Friday, March 28, 2008

FBI Mystery Man has been identified


The FBI has identified its mystery man as Scott Andrew Shain, born in 1955. The FBI says Shain was identified thanks to the help of the Social Security Administration. Who dimed him out? His parents apparently identified him by checking his picture on the FBI website.
For those of you who don't know or remember this the guy I talked about briefly last week when I mentioned "hide-and-go seek". While the FBI knows his name, aAgents still don't know the full extent of his criminal background, but they do know that he served in the U.S. Air Force and was from Boston.
Shain is now in federal custody on multiple counts of aggravated identity theft, such as stealing a dead man's identity. If you recall, this guy had 33 aliases and had a rap sheet for some of them. I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't just a paranoid individual who suffered a mental illness and the aliases were a combination of personalities and/or identities to hide. I say that because unlike most identity thieves, he never sold his new identity and never turned it to profit for himself. As I read more, the more I'm suspicious of why he needed 33 aliases.

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