I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this but I'm already a member of this community so I thought I'd try here first. Hopefully this is relevant and allowed.
Last year someone opened a credit card in my name fraudulently with CITI bank. The card was sent to my address and everything. I called CITI and they closed the account and I locked my credit with 2 of the 3 big creditors.
This morning I get a notification from two of my financial institutions that I had another hard credit pull, looks like someone applied me for a credit card again through CITI. UGH!
I've already been on the phone with them and had the account cancelled, but how do I stop this? Long term I think my credit score will be fine but it's definitely disrupting things in the short term. Actually communicating with the big credit reporting people is next to impossible. Does anybody have any advice for how to better protect myself and make sure this doesn't mess anything up for me?