Where do you call when your identity is stolen?

Question

Stolen purse

Answer 1

first report it to your local police. Call your bank, credit cards, and the Social Security Adm. (if you SS card was in your purse) and let them know your purse was stolen. Then call the Secret Service in your area, to let them know that your purse was stolen, was reported to the local authorities and someone has stolen your identity.

Secret Service deals w/identity theft. I say report it to SSA because if your SSN was in the purse, the person who took your purse will be using it.

Answer 2

I would call the cops first if it was stolen and not lost. Then you'll have to call one of the 3 credit bureaus and report what happened and they'll be on the lookout for identity theft for the next 90 days.

Answer 3

Contact the fraud departments of any one of the three consumer reporting companies to place a fraud alert on your credit report. A fraud alert tells creditors to follow certain procedures before open any new accounts...

Close the accounts that you know or believe have been tampered with or opened fraudulently. Use the ID Theft Affidavit (PDF, 56KB) when disputing new unauthorized accounts...

File your complaint with the FTC. You may print a copy of your complaint to provide important standardized information for your police report...

File a report with your local police or police in the community where the identity theft took place. Give the police a copy of your FTC ID Theft complaint form. Get a copy of the police report (or, at least, the police report number)…

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft//

Identity Theft Resource Center
bank.http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.shtml

Answer 4

Call all your credit card people right away and have tem cancelled and new ones issued to you before you do anything else.Then call the police if you want, but they really can't do very much. ID theft isn't a high priority crime for most police depts.

Answer 5

Do you have evidence? in case you do then specific, call the non-emergency police. additionally record a civil lawsuit and take even in the event that they have. They did it to you, do it them. What is going around comes around, and once you're fortunate, you are the only giving it back to that very comparable guy or woman.

Answer 6

local law enforcement agency, an indentity theft hotllne. Call and cancel all your accounts, credit cards.

Answer 7

Local police.

Answer 8

your head