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Damn, that sucks Flea. At least you had all the contact information you needed to get your credit cards cancelled and whatnot.

So where was your purse when it got stolen?

Ouch Flea

Back when I got mugged in 1998, The police were able to find my purse, with my keys and some of my Estee Lauder make up inside it. First thing I did was call to cancel my debit and independence card. Then let the state know my id was stolen.

I was given the run around with the MVA about getting an new State ID card. It took them 3 days to finally tell me that, I needed to replace my old Cook County notice of Birth Registration with actual birth certificate. After all that, getting everything else replaced was easy. I did find my mom never did a spell check on my name though, so I'm now have middle name of Claire legally.

2 weeks later I also found my lawyer's buisness card and the local co-op card, a few blocks down the street from where I was mugged.

Hope you have better luck in Cook County then, I did in Baltimore.

Edited, Jun 8th 2006 at 9:19am EST by ElneClare

Im sorry to hear this Flea. All I can think is that at least it was stolen when you werent around, and not stolen off of you personally, which could have had worse consequences. Big Hugz

I had my driver's license stolen one time and I didn't know about it for almost a year. I knew I had lost it and I had a replacement made, but I never thought that someone actually had the old one.

One day I came home from work and had calls from my bank telling me I needed to come in first thing the next morning and they were freezing all my accounts until I came in.

Turns out this guy was going through the drive-through and had deposited about $12k of hot checks into my account in that one day. Luckily, they caught him on the first day he ever tried it. When they told him to come inside and see the manager he sped off, but later he came back and said "Hey I left my DL here earlier and I need to get it back." While one teller kept him talking, another one walked outside and wrote down his license plate number

When I got finished at the bank, I went to get a new license with a different number and I found out that the ******* had been there attempting to get another copy of my license with his picture on it so my DL was frozen until I came in for a hearing the next week. He had even been in there acting like me and telling them where/when he had to have a replacement made during the time when I lost it. He knew that I had the replacement made at a town about 50 miles away from here.

It all worked out ok though. I'm not sure what ended up happening to him but the police had figured out who it was. I still keep a close watch on my credit report but nothing else strange has happened since that incident.

My mother is in a panic, and telling me not to wear jewelry anymore. As if.

Done and done. My bank also knows the report # that CPD gave me. Thanks for the guide, and I'm somewhat satisfied to see that I do 99% of that. The only thing I don't do is get periodic copies of my credit reports, but I suppose I may start. One of my credit cards has an identity theft monitoring system I may spring for for a bit. About two months ago, one of my credit cards notified all three of a break in their security and possible info leak. I wonder if that still holds, or if I should call all 3 again....



Off to the DMV and to buy a new purse.

I can't remember the correct place to do this, but you can set some flag in your credit report so that if someone ever tries to open a new account with your SSN, the business has to call you at your home phone number before they can open the account.

One of my coworkers had a problem with ID theft and as soon as he turned on this flag he started getting multiple calls at home each day. He explained the situation to each business and eventually it all went away.

Yeah, it's not like they'll rip it out of your ears!

(I hope?)

Take this as a sign that you need to get that Coach one you were looking at.

So are you now starting to look for another place, preferably safer?

Sorry that you're going to go through a total hassle though getting the now-cancelled stuff replaced. Still keep an alert on your credit report though. Better to be safe than sorry.

Does that indicate cell phone? If it is indeed a motorola razer phone, law enforcement can track the position of it if it is turned on. It tries to hit the cell towers every 15 minutes to update your text meassage / voice mail store ont he phone, and it sends a position fix at that time.

A razr broadcasts a typecode and a serial number independant of the card, so if they check they should still be able to see the switch. What they did if they were smart is turned the phone off and pulled the battary immidiatly, then mailed it to argentina or thailand.

I don't remember if the serial broadcast is enabled by default or not though, or if they have to specifically trigger a serial broadcast from the phone.

i know where someone can get completely protected from identity theft for them and their families, credit reports, 24/7 monitoring of credit, notifications of anyone opening up credit cards, buying cars, houses, stuff like that, AND, if youre a victim, theyll fix it for free, kickass deal for $10 a mo. for the whole family, new times calls for new products i guess. and new ways of stealing one's identity.