r/IdentityTheft

like the title says. My friend told me that her mother has a doordash charge on her CC showing my name & email address.

#1. i do not have doordash in my name. We rarely use it and my daughter is the only one with the account, in her name. My name is not even listed under the family members.

2. Her mother does not live where we live. I met her once for a week. We used her card one night, a while ago.. to take an uber home after going out one night.

I asked my friend to send me the statement so i can see for myself what it says but she hasn't.

The only thing i can possibly think of is that my phone was hacked a few months ago .. very bad. They took over my entire phone. Mirror'd it i guess you can say.. got it all info out of my phone, changed every single password i had saved on mine and my kids accounts.. couldn't kick them out bc it was showing as my phone when it wasn't.. it was a nightmare

This has happened with one other person.. a friend of mine who lives in another state, except on his CC statement it showed apple pay under my Daughter's name,. I have never had access to his card so he knows that it was not me and he knows i would never do that..

i am not sure when this happened bc everything has been good for about 2 months now, however she just brought it up though text when we were discussing another topic.

Any input on how this can have happened? Do you think that my phone being taken over can be the reason? Its just weird thats its showing my name and email when i don't even have an account. i am worried that she thinks i did this as i asked her to send me a pic of the statement so i can see when it was and what it says.. see if its my exact email etc.. she has not sent anything over to me nor responded to me in a few days.

i explained all of this to her. showed her screen shots of the doordash account. asked her to send me the statement but she hasn't and told her i would show her all of my identity theft reports etc.. i don't know why she hasn't brought it up sooner to me? Has anything like this ever happened to anyone?? i am stressing over this.. my son and her son are best friends and i just want to figure this out.. Thank You

So the other day I started receiving random phone calls around 6am. My phone would ring for about 4 seconds then stop, then ring again. I declined the calls and then would block them and report as spams.

Then about two hours later I receive messages demanding money, $5,000 and if i don't, my family will pay the price.They then proceed to send me a message with my Full name, age and old address. Along with names of a few relatives

I've been reading up on some websites that can "remove" you're personal information from data brokers but I'm having trouble deciding which ones actually work. So here I am writing this asking for some advice.

Thanks.

I received a Verizon Internet Gateway in the mail addressed to me (with my last name before I got married). I called Verizon’s fraud line and there is an account opened in my name that I did not open. Verizon needs a local police report that I have to upload to the form they sent me.

First, how do I get a police report?

Second, why would I receive the box in the mail if someone opened an account in my name? Wouldn’t it go to their address but with my name on it?

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got one of those alerts that my email showed up in a breach and now im going down a spiral wondering what else is tied to it. changed passwords already but it still feels like theres more i should be doing. what do people normally check next?

I just received a call today w/ caller ID: Dhs ICE from their office in a state I don't live in (but I have visited before).

Their method of verifying their legitimacy was to point me to the ice.gov website, then go to the "Contact Us" section and identify the field office they're calling from, which was only 1 number off from the number you can see online.

They were telling me someone had a passport issued in another country in my name and that there's an ongoing investigation. They provided their name, badge number (which I cannot verify), and told me I cannot answer any calls while I'm on the phone with them and if disconnected, wait for them to call back, then said I cannot transfer any money more than $500 during these 5 days. They added another person, their supervisor, to confirm I understand this process.

They also asked me not go let anyone know I am under investigation and if anyone is in the room with me, just tell them I'm doing an interview.

They asked to confirm my first and last name, if I traveled internationally, if I suspect my data was leaked online and where, the names of the banking institutions I have credit cards in, any names of brokerage accounts I own, my zip code, and whether I own or rent.

I asked for a case number so I can log into the ICE or IRS portal regarding their investigation and they said there isn't one because the case was just opened today. I also asked if my case could be transferred to a field office in my state and they refused saying my case is under their jurisdiction.

They threatened that I must provide information or else I have to answer to the local police department (most likely bc I disclosed my zip code) and get detained with a warrant for not cooperating. I didn't do anything wrong, so I don't see why that would be an issue.

I ultimately did not move forward with the call because my husband spoke up saying this was a scam. They hung up.

Please be careful, everyone.

Back in March my PayPal account got compromised along with various other accounts via stolen browser sessions, and someone used it to buy around $7k worth of digital game card codes. Over 70 duplicate transactions in a matter of minutes, which somehow didn’t trigger any sort of fraud alert with PayPal

I immediately locked down my account and called my bank, who was able to block/refuse the majority of the charges. PayPal didn’t do shit to help, but I still made sure everything was documented on their end as well

About a week later PayPal forced the charges through again, only for them to get rejected by my bank a second time. PayPal then placed a negative $7k balance on my account. The most support will do is reopen denied cases, because they just get rejected again once the vendor responds

I’m not disputing whether the merchant delivered the codes. I’m saying my account was hacked and I never authorized the purchases in the first place. I’ve repeatedly asked PayPal support, supervisors, anyone I can get ahold of, to provide documentation showing the account activity, login history, IPs, anything tied to the day of the attack, and I’ve received nothing

I filed a CFPB complaint today because I genuinely feel like nobody at PayPal is actually reviewing this as account takeover fraud. They just keep focusing on whether the merchant fulfilled the order. At this point I don’t even care about restoring the account because I’ll never trust PayPal again, but at this amount I fully expect them to eventually send it to collections

Has anyone here actually gotten PayPal to reverse something like this? Did CFPB escalation help at all?

I have two negative items on my credit report that are currently with Columbia debt recovery. Both are for apartment complexes that I’ve never applied for and never lived at. I’ve reached out to Columbia debt recovery several times and have been greeted with extreme rudeness and lack of cooperation. They did send me one thing in my email that states my legitimate first and last name, but not my middle name. So somebody used my identity with my Social Security number with my first and last name, but a made up middle name. Not sure where to go to from here. I don’t even know how to get this taken off my credit report. Any help would be appreciated. Because of these it is negatively impacting my credit score and I just tried to rent an apartment and they denied me because of this.

I have done everything I can think of to lock down my credit. I’ve followed all the tips on this page and from the FTC. But it’s all useless if the credit bureaus keep letting the fraudster call in to make changes to my fraud alert and credit reports!! They’ve been able to do this with all 3 bureaus. How can I stop them when they literally have all the information they need to verify my identity over the phone with customer support? She even added her boyfriend’s name as a spouse/coapplicant on Experian. I didn’t even know that was possible!

Help! Has anyone else dealt with this and know what to do? I’m losing my damn mind!

I have been receiving mail addressed to someone who has never lived in my house. It’s like new address “welcome to your new home” mailers. I filled out a form with USPS. Everything I’ve received is advertising but I’m unnerved because I’ve had identity theft issues. I have all three of my credit bureaus frozen. The person has a common name and the only thing I’m finding locally is a person with this name who is recently deceased. Any ideas of what might be going on, or recommendations? Or am I being paranoid?

Location: Alabama

When I went to college, my parents (separated, never married) told me that they had a fund for me, and I’d never have to pay off any student debts. They would pay by semester, my dad pays one, then mom pays the other, a back and forth system. All through college, no issues.

My senior year, my mom told me she took out loans, but under her name. I didn’t see a shred of paperwork, didn’t sign anything at all. Come to find out, she took out 13k in loans under MY name. It was to pay for my college, but I had no idea. I have no access to any of the accounts to even pay my loans or freeze my credit because all of the info is hers. On top of that, she opened a credit card in my name too. I cancelled it, but it’s not paid off either.

Dad sent her money to pay my college when she couldn’t. I have no idea what she did with it. I received refund checks, and she told me to cash them so I did. There is one that she cashed with my name on it with a faked signature.

Now the frustrating part, and why I’m posting. I did EVERYTHING that everyone told me to. I made an identity theft report online. Went nowhere. I went to the police three times. Made reports. Nothing. I compiled a huge envelope full of evidence, proof of payments from my dad (and proof he sent her money), and mailed it to the loan office. They said it wasn’t enough proof and there was nothing they could do. People keep sending me the same google search “how to report stolen identity”, with all the same shit I already did.

My credit score is 458 now. I don’t talk to my mom anymore for other reasons.

What else can I possibly do? Is there a specific type of lawyer who deals with this? I’m also a broke mid-20s woman which doesn’t help.

I have been inundated with texts both from numbers and short codes from PartnerPros, Justborrow, GoChecks, Fintara,.... I do not open them I immediately block the number and send to junk, the codes I can only junk but not block. I am on an iphone and have the crappy ATT Active Armor which does nothing. Is there any way to filter or block other than unknown sender the texts?? They are also sending me emails from different senders- street loan, Pulse, Cashemeum cedarcreek financial, red arrow loans- most are coming from manymail.io and opengatecash.com, info@prosperloan.com

Looks like all these are spam companies & someone got my info and is having a heyday. How do I stop this??

I have checked my accounts etc and there isn't any unusual activity.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a spammer that just paid all your bills? Thanks for any help or suggestions!!

As the title says, someone set up an account using my email address. The storage unit is in New York. I didn't live in the US. I contacted Public Storage and was told that I need to go to the facility in person to get my info changed. I can't do that.

I can't log into the account because a code is sent to the user's phone. I did find their phone number and politely asked them to update their email, but they haven't.

They have missed many payments and now there is a lien. I don't know what to do now.

the skim happened on a fairly normal merchant site, nothing obviously sketchy. I had to cancel the card, dispute three charges, and wait two weeks for a replacement. annoying enough that I actually changed some habits afterward.

the main thing i shifted: i try not to enter card details on sites i don't have a long history with. for those purchases one-off things, international shops, random services, i use gift cards instead(from Aceb). pay in crypto, get a code, and use the code at checkout. the merchant gets no financial data from me at all. it's not perfect and it doesn't work for everything.

subscriptions and physical stuff still need a real card sometimes. but probably 60% of my online spending has moved to this flow. I realize this may sound paranoid, but I hadn't previously considered this until I spent three hours on the phone with my bank.

I had a pretty uncomfortable moment this week

I’m interviewing for a new role right now, so before one of the calls I searched my own name just to see what comes up publicly

mostly expected LinkedIn, maybe an old portfolio or dead social accounts

instead the first page was full of websites with way more information than I expected

old cell numbers

addresses from years ago

possible relatives

even one site showing people I “may know” for some reason

What made it worse is that some of the info wasn’t even accurate anymore, but it still looked convincing enough that someone could easily assume it was current

I spent a while trying to remove a few listings manually and quickly realized how fragmented the whole thing is

every site has different rules, different forms, different waiting periods

Finally I found that there're services that can remove these pages, I'm thinking of trying Onerep.

Still feels strange that random background-info websites are often easier to find than the things you intentionally put online yourself

Do you guys actually monitor this stuff regularly or only check after something weird happens?

I'm going through the master list and making sure I've got everything frozen. A couple of the small ones like datax and clarity say they have no files for me and to freeze the account I need to send them a copy of my driver's license and social security number to have them create my file and then freeze it.

I'm trying to decide which is the better play security wise. If I mailed these documents I will mail them certified mail with signature requested. But is that actually taking one step away from the fraudster and making it easier? Or doesn't make more sense to create the file and to get it locked before anyone else gets there?

Edit: sorry I know it is incorrect to call these agencies lenders I was just typing too fast.

third time this happens first when i was 16 then at 18 and now this

i dont get it i keep my card locked up i never text it to anyone i only use it for taxes and banks so how does this keep happening

called the irs and they said it shouldnt affect me but like how do i know that

i tried asking once who was doing it and they said they couldnt tell me to protect the other persons identity. are you kidding me

so now every tax season i have extra steps and extra anxiety

started looking into how people even get your social in the first place. apparently a lot of the time it starts with your info being on those people search sites like whitepages and spokeo. scammers grab that then piece together the rest from breaches or whatever

i froze my credit and im using some monitoring thing from my insurance but someone told me to check where my info is hanging out online too

has anyone here actually stopped the employment fraud thing or am i just screwed forever

feels like once your numbers out there its out there for good and all you can do is damage control

anyone been through this and actually made it stop

Hi, I last week I received shipping text updates about an order placed through the website Revolve. I didn’t place an order but noticed the person and I have the same first name(uniquely spelled but common name), so I didn’t think anything of it and assumed the company just made an error. I responded to the shipping company Veho that day stating they had the wrong info but they didn’t respond. I completely forgot about it.

This morning my bank alerted me that my debit card was flagged for fraud on a $0 charge that I didn’t place and they froze my account. I planned to call them tomorrow morning as today’s Sunday, assuming it was just an error cause it didn’t make sense.

Now, I was just looking through my email inbox and I noticed a bunch of emails from Revolve to review an order. There was also a welcome email for an account created last week. I already have an account so it didn’t make sense. I realized that my old email address’ emails are forwarded to my current email account. So a new Revolve account was created under my old email last week then placed an order.

I was able to log into “my” account using a recovery password. I can see the order and everything. The person used my old email address and current cell phone with my correct name and billing address but with a card that isn’t mine. Then they shipped it using their name and address.

Should I be worried? Should I report this to the FTC for identity theft?
Thanks!

I will pay whatever to get it back right. My number is 6189233333
Thanks Dave