How can I help my mother-in-law if she has been a victim of identity theft by a family member?
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at
6:34 am
Kimberly asked:
What happened is that my future mother-in-law has been a victim of identity theft for the 3rd time by the wife of one of his sons.
This lady opens credit cards under my mother in law’s name, she spends money and then the bank sends bills to my in law.
She has been caught and she paid the bills in previous times, but she did it again, she got another card and spent over 1 000 dlls.
This lady kept on doing that since my future mother law is noble and would do anything to keep the family close, but this has gone over the line and my in law wants to take legal action.
They need my help because nobody in her family speak english (they are mexicans with legal papers) except for her son (my boyfriend) and me, but my boyfriend cant help ’cause he works far away and only can come on the weekends.
What happened is that my future mother-in-law has been a victim of identity theft for the 3rd time by the wife of one of his sons.
This lady opens credit cards under my mother in law’s name, she spends money and then the bank sends bills to my in law.
She has been caught and she paid the bills in previous times, but she did it again, she got another card and spent over 1 000 dlls.
This lady kept on doing that since my future mother law is noble and would do anything to keep the family close, but this has gone over the line and my in law wants to take legal action.
They need my help because nobody in her family speak english (they are mexicans with legal papers) except for her son (my boyfriend) and me, but my boyfriend cant help ’cause he works far away and only can come on the weekends.
any advice on what can I do to help them?
thanks
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Sit down with her and call all three major credit bureaus and have them put a fraud alert on her reports. This will prevent anyone from opening a new account without the credit bureau notifying your mother at her home address. Make sure they have the correct home address for her. Go to and get her free annual credit report from all three bureaus to make sure there are no other accounts open that she doesn’t know about.
The fraud alert numbers are:
Equifax 888-766-0008
Transunion 800-680-7289
Experian 888-397-3742
For more ideas on how to protect her visit any of the credit bureaus websites they all have information on preventing identity theft and credit fraud.
Good luck.