I think DH and i need to start looking in to this...he keeps getting collection letters for a credit card that isn't his. Sprint even tried to collect on him for an account that was never his either; he's a Verizon customer!! Turns out someone with the same name in NY went in to collections and when they searched DH's name and the area, they came up with him and thought he was the one. So the Sprint one got taken care of.
Now a law office/debt consolidation company out of Phoenix has just called my *mother* in NM looking for DH!! WTF?!?!
I gave DH the info and he's going to call them to check it out.
Anyone do Life Lock, or other anti-ID theft websites? Do they work? ![]()
Re: Anyone do Life Lock/anti ID theft devices?
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I haven't done anything like LifeLock. We had a similar situation with my H, who has a very common name. His employer even has someone else with the same first, last and middle initial which created a mess when he was hired years ago. When we were buying our coop, the bank asked him about addresses where he had lived. None of them were accurate. It's weird when certain things look up a person just based on name and there can be cross-overs like that.
I can see how it would be worth it to pay some money to have someone else looking through your credit reports on a more regular basis than you would. If you decide to do it, please let me know how it is and what happens.