Posted on Sunday, 18th October 2009 by Admin
Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
During National Protect Your Identity Week we will be taking a fundamental approach to the issues. In the next 3 posts we’ll look at myths, compiled by the National Foundation for Credit Counselors (NFCC) who is sponsoring a “Protect Your Identity Week” October 17 – 24. To help support their efforts, The Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee helped create these tips.
Identity theft is preventable. Like any other kind of crime, there’s always a risk of becoming a victim of identity crime. But there
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About a little more than 2 years ago my mother started opening credit cards in my name. she had memorized my social security number and other information. she opened up 8-10 cards racked them up and didn’t pay them after the first few months. I moved out and was saving up for a car because my mother kept the one my grandmother gave me. I had just started forwarding the mail from our house when I started getting collections letters from credit card companies. she had stopped paying them for over 5-6 months.I knew that she had done it because when i applied for a Victoria secret card they told me i already had one and my mother was listed as an authorized user. she admitted to my step mom that she had done it. I came into some money when my grandmother died and i paid it off but now my credit is basically fuc***. I