Survival after Identity Theft What You Must DoIf you are a victim of identity theft, your skills for organizing will help to battle the crime. After taking all the necessary steps to report the crime you must learn modus operandi that will help you cope. Accuracy is essential when describing your crime to the law, FTC, credit bureaus and other sources. If you have organized notes and information available, the authorities will have more available to them to find the crook. So keeping all documentation linked to the crime is important, even if you feel it is not. Therefore, setup a filing system outside of your computer and store the information in a safe area. If you must, rent a box at the bank to store you files, rather than taking a chance with storing them at your home. Thus, fires, floods and other natural disasters can destroy all your belongings in one sweep; therefore keeping your files in a box at a bank is much safer. You should also keep copies at a filing cabinet at home as a backup measure. In addition, it is important to keep witnesses available or evidence of your whereabouts if you are victim of identity theft. Bear in mind, the criminal has your information and capable of using it freely without notice, thus you never know the state of mind the criminal stores. Theoretically speaking, per se a psychopath steals your identity commits a murder or series of murders using your identity in your areaWhom do you think is going to catch the blame. Of course, this hypothetic case is over dramatized, but what if? If you have a mental history of disorders, the authorities are not going to care if your identity is stolen at the time of arrest. Your only hope you will have is to have evidence and witnesses available to protect your name. With the September 11 ordeal the terrorist were using someone else's identity at what time the crime was acted out. Now, the media has not to my knowledge reported the arrest of the victims who lost their identity, however it has happened and will happen again. Don't let it be you. Again, what if the identity thief uses your driving license pulled over and arrestDo you know what the Secretary of State is storing in their files under your name? If the perpetrator is pulled over for drinking and driving and you have not reported the crime to the Secretary of State or Department of Motor Vehicles, thus when you re-apply for your driver license or update your license the department may reject your renewal and your privileges may be suspended. Likewise, if you have not reported the crime to all authorities and the thief has your license information, thus when you get pulled over and find that the criminal of identity theft has committed a crime in your name, what do you have available to protect your self from the law? Think hard here. It should be simple to see that identity theft extends further than most crimes, since in many instances the victims are persecuted further by the law, credit bureaus, creditors, and many other sources. For that reason, you should never give the original copies of any documentation to anyone; rather give the proper authorities copies of your notes, and other documentation. Once you have gone through the series of steps to fight back against identity theft, you will soon learn that you have only begun a hateful race of crime. Some question may run through your mind. Why do identity thieves' steal you ask? Why me? Who is out to get me? Why do thieves steal is a question inside of a series of questions. Identity thieves steal because they can, because they find it entertaining, or else greed and desire is dancing inside their mind. Why you, because the thief does not care who he or she hurts, and you are nothing more than an object to his desire and greed. Who is out to get you? Identity thieves are out to get every one that they feel has something to offer them. Therefore, do not feel as though you are targeted for persecution (although you are), rather remember, that thieves do not care who they hurt, or who they attack. The bad thing is that it happened to you. |
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