I had my identity stolen. I got a random call from a store asking if I tried to open a credit card. I contacted Citi (Citibank) identity theft services and they helped a ton. It still took about a month to get everything cleared up (getting lists of all opened accounts, contacting each lender, etc).
There was no way to prevent this as it was a state government agency worker who stole mine along with 70 other identities.
About 3 years later I testified in court against the thief and he got 30 years in jail (many people were affected).
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I had my identity stolen. I got a random call from a store asking if I tried to open a credit card. I contacted Citi (Citibank) identity theft services and they helped a ton. It still took about a month to get everything cleared up (getting lists of all opened accounts, contacting each lender, etc).
There was no way to prevent this as it was a state government agency worker who stole mine along with 70 other identities.
About 3 years later I testified in court against the thief and he got 30 years in jail (many people were affected).
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