I never thought Identity Theft would happen to me.
I can probably call this the worst week of my life so far with confidence.
First, monday was crap – i got publicly humiliated at work by the managers here… long story, bad junk, i moved on.
Yesterday I got a call from a credit fraud department of a bank telling me that someone opened an account in my name with all my information, including SSN. They tried to change the address & the phone number. The phone number had a NY area code, so this sent up flags at the bank. They closed & locked that account.
I found something on my credit report that indicated someone had attempted to apply for credit. I didn’t do this, so I called the credit card company. The application was declined since addresses didn’t match, and the address was in THE BRONX … so two incidences where someone in NY has my info and tried to apply for credit.
I filed a police report, I contacted the credit bureaus and put a fraud alert on my card, called my credit cards & warned them, called my bank & put a secure password on all my accounts – that is, no one can make any changes without the pw… I’m tracking my credit report daily with experian’s “Gold” account… this is hell. So far no money has changed hands… we’ll see if I can keep thwarting the ass who has my information.
At this moment, I have no faith in humanity. I usually give people the benefit of the doubt, but not any more. I need vibes, thoughts, prayers if anyone’s got any…
