topic Re: Stolen Social Security Card in General Credit Topics

Stolen Social Security Card

dabearsv2 — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 16:30:39 GMT

My soon-to-be-DW had her wallet stolen yesterday and it contained her Social Security Card and DL.

What steps can we take to be proactive in making sure nothing happens to her Credit? She already got Credit Lock. Is there anything else that can be done?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Stolen Social Security Card

xsvspd — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 16:45:37 GMT

Granted they may not have done anything with her credit yet, but here's some good info to read over.

http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/General-Credit-Topics/Victim-of-Identity-Theft-What-To-Do-to-Protect-Yourself/td-p/2059499

Re: Stolen Social Security Card

dabearsv2 — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 16:48:03 GMT

Thank you! Thats exactly what I was looking for!

Re: Stolen Social Security Card

cobbson — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 18:12:45 GMT

I didn't see this mentioned in prior responses. File form 14039 http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f14039.pdf Identity Theft Affidavit with the Internal Revenue Service. This will prevent anyone from filing false returns under your social social number. You'll be assigned a PIN, which will be changed annully, to be used in filing all future returns.

Cobbson

Re: Stolen Social Security Card

credit-hunter — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:05:13 GMT

A police report is always good to have just in case any theft occurs.