Check your credit card account daily. Check your credit file weekly.
1. Pull your credit report
2. Sign up for a credit monitoring service
3. The doctor has liability here if that person got your information and used it. he did what he was supposed to by telling you. Every day this happens and it gets covered up.
Get a credit report.
Check your credit report regularly.
Contact your family lawyer as there may be “tax related” issues with someone obtaining a job using your SSN with income that the IRS may come a knocking asking why you didn’t declare the income from your job as a waitress at some seedy diner.
Find a new doctor.
Your doctor should have had this person arrested, not just fired.
The State of Ohio lost a computer with my SS info (and who knows what else) a few years ago. They made it up by giving me a complimentary one year membership to a credit protection service!
I don’t know the exact details, but I think you can put a “lock” on your credit so that any new accounts cannot be opened without getting your personal approval. People who steal your personal information will often go to some store and apply for new credit with your personal information. With your existing accounts, you are normally pretty well protected against unauthorized charges.
You shouldn’t go to that doctor anymore. Any person who hires that potential liability without a background search is incompetent in other areas, too. Rescue your medical records from this doc and find a new doctor.
Don’t give your SS# to health care providers. If the office staff balks, tell them to make up a number for their records.
Get LifeLock. Now.
I subscribe my entire family to LifeLock, as well as a second “identity theft” prevention service. Just gives peace of mind, and the price isn’t too high.
I’d be happy to give you my SSN if you want it. Of course, if you use it, I’ll know. ;-)
Cheers!
Contact Equifax, TransUnion and Experian (the nation’s three credit reporting agencies) and order credit reports for your husband and for yourself, and then have them place “Fraud Alerts” if you see any transactions or accounts not opened by you.
Here’s something I find disturbing: I just got back from the DMV this morning to renew my license. The custodial staff were county jail inmates. They were working behind the counters. Behind the counters where hundreds of applications with names, addresses, and SSNs wind up daily....