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Furnish as much documentation as you can to prove your case.
Debt collection letters, credit reports, your notarized ID
Theft Affidavit, and other evidence of fraudulent activity
can help the police file a complete report.
Local authorities may tell you that they can't take a report.
Stress the importance of a police report; many creditors
require one to resolve your dispute. Also remind them that
under their voluntary "Police Report Initiative,” credit bureaus
will automatically block the fraudulent accounts and bad debts
from appearing on your credit report, but only if
you can give them a copy of the police report. If you can't get
the local police to take a report, try your county police. If
that doesn't work, try your state police.
If you're told that identity theft is not a crime under your
state law, ask to file a Miscellaneous Incident Report instead.
See the list of state laws below.
Ask your police department to search the FTC's Consumer Sentinel
database for other complaints in your community. You may not be
the first or only victim of this identity thief. If there is a
pattern of cases, local authorities may give your case more
consideration.
That's why it's also important to file a complaint with the FTC.
Law enforcement agencies use complaints filed with the FTC to
aggregate cases, spot patterns, and track growth in identity theft.
This information can then be used to improve investigations and
victim assistance.
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Now the agency charged with fighting identity theft says it's lost two laptops containing personal data.
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By the time of Shiva Brent Sharma's third arrest for identity theft, at the age of 20, he had taken in well over $150,000 in cash and merchandise in his brief career.
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... credit. "People need to consider how great the risk of ID theft is and whether they will be seeking credit," says Brody. Evan Hendricks ...
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