I had my identity stolen. It's been a 'fun' week.'

[yvr girl]

All my accounts are frozen. The only money I have is change found in pockets etc. I need to get all new accounts, SIN, cards etc.

If they ever find the person, I want to do something very non-Canadian to them. Torture sounds good.

[ashmanonar]

1. nah, that's not torture.

just a well-deserved beating. like the one that many governmental officials deserve!

[JimmyJazz]

2. Oh no! I was wondering where you had been....

I am so sorry to hear that. :hug:

[yvr girl]

5. I've had company as well, but I've been pretty tied up with this mess

since Wednesday. It appears that they stole my mail. From that, they were able to clean out my bank accounts, investments, apply for credit cards in my name, get a cell phone. We think they even tapped into my home voice mail - they returned a call to the bank for me!

[ashmanonar]

15. wow.

sounds like professionals.

sorry to hear it! :hug:

[BlondieK143]

3. Oh shit!

I'm so sorry! Good luck with everything! :hug:

[roenyc]

4. scary. very freaking scary. good luck.

[miss_kitty]

6. that happened to me

last January. Now there is a task force, it's federal, I found out at one point I was a suspect, over $70,000 in bad checks in my name, off name DOB and SSN. Stolen from my hospital records. And my bank-Well they gave them my checking acct.:grr: :nuke: :grr:

I feel your 'fun' :cry:

[Glenda]

7. So sorry!!

:grouphug:

Let us know how things are going. And also any tips you learn as you go through the process. It could happen to any one of us

G.

[yvr girl]

10. One thing for sure, is to pick up your mail every single day

I might even go to a PO Box.

[Glenda]

11. Do you know what they got from your mail ...

to enable them to carry out the fiasco?

[yvr girl]

12. Not sure yet - it's still being investigated

Bank Statements, Bills (credit card, phone etc.) Paystub, something from Revenue Canada.

The cops who came here were full time fraud police. They said that there is tons of this going on.

[Glenda]

13. Oh, gosh, they got something of everything then!

Did they say if they tend to ever catch the people doing this?

[nutsnberries]

20. yup -

"They said that there is tons of this going on"

sure is.

[yvr girl]

21. If only they would use their talents for good

[Guaranteed]

8. I think they were posting under your SN on DU, too!

Something about Chimpy being God's gift to the world.... :P

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. I just went through this myself

so I know how you feel. This is just a despicable crime.

[nutsnberries]

19. me too.

but it was only one account and was fairly easy to prove i was not responsible.
still, it's a time-consuming pain in the butt that i really didn't need.
the police report, the fraud packet, the proof, the notarization, the credit company letters, the phone calls, etc...

sorry to hear about it...good luck.

[RagingInMiami]

14. I had thought you had dropped off the face of this earth

welcome back

[whatelseisnew]

16. How did you initially discover it? (n/t)

[yvr girl]

17. Someone at the bank noticed unusual activity

It wasn't even my branch. She froze my account until she could verify it. When I tried to use my debit card, I got a message to contact my bank. When I checked my account online, I was shocked. It was one week from the first transaction until I became aware of the problem.

[shesemsmom]

18. I'm sorry

something similar happened to me a few years back... they cleaned out our checking account. They never caught them The bank did make good on the money, and the phone company made good on the 900 calls and our local sheriff was not helpfull..( a democrat) and the next year since he was so unhelpful got to join the ranks of the unemployed.....lol some good did come of it. I hope you catch them

[driver8]

22. Happened to me, too -- took me a couple of years to fix.

These dickheads stole my outgoing mail from my mailbox that had all of my payments -- including one to a credit card company. On top of that, there was a payment towards a student loan and that one had my SSN on the payment slip. These guys had a good time for awhile without me knowing. Then one day I get a call from Sears asking me if I had opened another account with them. I said that I had not. The man informed me that someone had been in with my info trying to get a Sears Card. Thanks to him, I was able to prevent the guys from further using my info.

I had to put flags on all of the credit reports stating that I was to be personally notified at my home number before any credit could be authorized. It also took a long time to get all the shit off my credit report that these guys had done.