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Credit card companies: Set-up a password with them. get a PO box and/or have them e-mail the statements to you.
What I would do is,
* Get a PO Box and use it.
* Put freezes on your credit reports.
* Sign up for credit monitoring service. (USAA has the best value for such service).
While I understand family is family, but if you persue them for ID theft I can assure you, it would be hard founded they would attempt it again with some one else for several years to come.
ID theft is a major crime nowadays, the biggest fault of the system is it is usually performed by someone we know and 65% of the time it is a family member and we do not persue charges. If the system worked better the State would actually still pick up the charges and persue them for you, but it is not considered a high priority as in 90% of consumers this happens to just pay the bill not to have family member get into trouble.
@JM-AM wrote:While I understand family is family, but if you persue them for ID theft I can assure you, it would be hard founded they would attempt it again with some one else for several years to come.
ID theft is a major crime nowadays, the biggest fault of the system is it is usually performed by someone we know and 65% of the time it is a family member and we do not persue charges. If the system worked better the State would actually still pick up the charges and persue them for you, but it is not considered a high priority as in 90% of consumers this happens to just pay the bill not to have family member get into trouble.
I was watching Suze Orman last night and a caller's mother took out 100K of student loans in her name. Her mother refused to pay so the caller started paying on the loans...with a 30K salary. I'm sorry, but if I were her, my mother would be sitting in jail.
I have this on most all of my accounts, mainly my primary money account has a verbal password. ModCut After watching my little sister walk into a BofA and walk out with cash from my account. i ended that **bleep** right then and there. It was a dare, she claimed she could do it and i didnt believe her. well her DL has my last name and they bought the im his wife routine. my little sister is a doll she would never steal from me it was a one time thing but afterward i have put extra security in place. you can guard EVERYTHING with extra security even your bank account your credit accounts everything , add extra verbal passwords and use only phrases you would know.
~edited to keep it "G" rated ~pizzadude, myFICO moderator