I learned recently while applying for a mortgage that some hyena up in Alaska got ahold of my SS number and filed a return using my name. This impostor claimed an income of $12,000 and got a return of $1,100. My income for the last 15 years has been north of $50,000 plus my wife’s. One would think that the IRS computers would’ve spotted that anomaly. Thanks to that hyena, I STILL haven’t got my 2012 return. We finally got all the paperwork faxed to the mortgage company. In July my son convinced me to open a LifeLock account.
Geez, I’m sorry to hear about your trouble.
If/when I file my return, if I’m off by $.50....you can bet I’ll hear from then...and expect a lien of some sort.
Same thing happened to me, only I never found out who it was. And yes, I got Lifelock, but that is really just insurance. Makes sure to contact the Soc. Security Administration, the SEC, the IRS’s fraud division, and that you file a police report . . .just call and ask for a policeman to stop by and take your info. Sounds like you have already done some of this.