Identity theft?

[shefearsnothing]

So if someone uses your SS# and opens an account in your name...how is that prosecuted? Let's say you know the person. Is that a private criminal complaint through the DA's office or do you have to go through the D. Justice office?

[Evolution]

So if someone uses your SS# and opens an account in your name...how is that prosecuted? Let's say you know the person. Is that a private criminal complaint through the DA's office or do you have to go through the D. Justice office?

Omg.. what did you do this time. You just can't keep out of trouble!!! . Seriously. I would call and report it with the police and let things unfold from there.

[Mr_Tom]

I believe you have to report first to local police.

However, you should go to the mirror, yell dummy. Being a vet, I've been plaing alerts on my credit report for years. It's free and any one trying crap requires lenders/banks to first contact you personaly before opening accts. I have my home number on my alert.

Good luck clearing things up, and submit an alert asap.

tom

[shefearsnothing]

HELLOOOOO!!!? It wasn't MY identity that was stolen!!! ROFL! My brother's ex g/f got a home phone line in his name...HE is the dumbass. She had his soc. sec. number. Who knows WTF else she has been doing. Anyway, I am trying to help him straighten out his life but did not know who he needed to report this to. (If it had been MY identity BELIEVE me someone would be answering to MY HUSBAND because HIS credit would be affected too and the man has PERFECT credit.)

[Mr_Tom]

HELLOOOOO!!!? It wasn't MY identity that was stolen!!! ROFL! My brother's

Then go over and hit him in the head. He needs to do what I said, infact we ALL need to do what I said. Go online, tell a credit reporting agency you want to file an alert. It's good for 90 days, and prevents such events as you described. Oh, and get the phone shut off.

tom

[tdyoung58]

he needs to call all three credit reporting bureaus and have a fraud alert put on his report, after he calls and reports it to the phone company and the local PD.

as long as he can prove everything he'll be okay, but it's gonna take a while to fix it all.

[slainte]

he needs to call all three credit reporting bureaus and have a fraud alert put on his report, after he calls and reports it to the phone company and the local PD.

as long as he can prove everything he'll be okay, but it's gonna take a while to fix it all.

Hope it's easier to clear up than mine ! My drivers lic/ # was stolen and put on a fake ID. The ID was used at stores up the east coast to write bad checks. I no longer can write checks at hundreds of store. And since most stores use your drivers lic. # when returning items (even w/ a receipt). I can not! It will come up as "oustanding checks".
When I reported it to the State Police. They treated "me" like the criminal. I had to give them My Drivers lic. and when they ran it .. It didn't come up ! They had to call it into the DMV. I have a "special #" (for reasons I can't disclose) But they where ready to come after me for a stolen ID. Until I had to explain why my number is sooo different. The plice say "it's an inconveinence not a theft because I am not out of money & it doesn't effect my credit score . YET!
Now anytime I need to return an item... I have to have someone else do it for me!! And I can never write checks at stores. Doesn't that suck!! Now I need to go thru all the paperwork and court hearings to get the DMV to issue me a new number.
GOOD LUCK! Hope it's easier than mine!

[shefearsnothing]

I'll keep this as brief as possible...

My brother got this girl pregnant. Mistake number 1. (ok he made a lot of mistakes before that but we could be here all day listing those...I won't even pretend he's responsible but he's TRYING to work on that.)

She didn't work most of the time BEFORE she was pregnant, her mom has custody of her oldest son (her mother nicknamed the child "shithead"...no I am NOT kidding. We have heard this firsthand.) Once she was pregnant the idea of work became a foreign concept all together. This attitude continued after she had my nephew in July.

My brother has been working his ass off trying to support both of them AND himself. They live like HOGS. My brother has never been the cleanest person but this girl...ok, the house she keeps I would not let my dog live in...although I really like my dog so let's say I wouldn't allow rats to live in her house (although they may at one time).

My brother had some fines he had to pay and at one point it came down to make the rent or pay the fines. He paid the rent to keep a roof over his son's head. Since he didn't pay his fines he went to jail. (Yeah, this isn't the first time he didn't pay his fines...fines were for stupid shit...like I said he's not always been very responsible.)

So while he's in jail he gets work release and I guess has made arrangements with his landlord to keep paying him rent so this girl has a place to live with his son. In the meantime, she has used his SS# and basically his identity to get a phone hooked up to the apt and god only knows what else. She has a cell phone too but he doesn't know whose name that is in yet. She has been shacking up with several guys IN MY BROTHER'S APT!!!

If all of that wasn't bad enough he broke the rules and stopped there a few times on his way to his job. (yeah I know, stupid ass he is!) Well what he found was HORRIBLE! His son is sleeping in a BED and not a crib, unsupervised. This girl got a ferret and it's running loose and shitting all over the place and she's not cleaning it up, and there are THREE DEAD CATS IN THE FREEZER.

He called the police and reported all of this yesterday. They went to the apt and she would not let them in. Apparently she showed them my nephew and because he appeared "in good health" they left and said there was nothing they could do. Ok, I get it if they had no legal means to go in and look around. I am all about not violating a person's rights. (BTW, my brother told them he broke the rules and went by there and they told him he was not in trouble for that. He is getting out on Sat.)

So next my mom and I called C&Y. We really wanted to avoid doing that but we figured if they were going to be called it needed to be done BEFORE my brother was back in the apt so that it was known that this was going on when HE was NOT there so he was not held responsible. Also, she is saying when he comes home on Sat she plans on being gone with my nephew and pretty much everything in the place. I am not sure I believe that will happen because I don't think she has the means to do it. But I digress...

The lady from C&Y said "well I'm sure you've read in the papers about all the budget cuts we had so we'll have to send someone over there tomorrow. We'll look around and if it's a mess like you say then we'll just tell her she has 48 hours to clean it up. We'll come back and check and if it's not clean then we'll tell her she can send the child to stay with a responsible family member until it's a suitable home."

The problem with this is 1. if she has to send him to a family member she will send him to her mother. 2. When my brother gets out on Saturday he will take care of the apt and want his son and her mother will NEVER give his son to him. 3. We don't even know WTH her mother lives and there's NO WAY this girl is going to tell anyone.

I asked her where she was going to go when she leaves on Sat and she said "that's my business". Maybe she will stay with her mom and maybe her aunt? I don't know. Her aunt has allegedly been going to apt a lot lately. I know she is planning on keeping this baby from my brother but she is NOT taking care of him nor does she have him in a safe and healthy environment. My brother has not led a perfect life but his "record" is nothing serious. It's just stupid crap. He has never been involved with anything that involved violence, drugs, sexual offenses or anything like that. He wants to file for custody (there is nothing official either way right now) and I think he has a good chance of getting it with the things this girl has been doing.

When I called her yesterday I was playing "good guy" and was talking to her like I was sympathtic to her etc. I heard my nephew in the backround screaming and crying and her aunt said "I'm not picking you up! You don't need to be held!" HE IS FOUR MONTHS OLD! You just don't talk to a 4 month old like that. A minute later I hear some guy yelling at him "I'm not your fucking dad!"

I know, this got waaaaaay off topic...but the long and the short of it is...I don't think he'll have ANY problem proving that she stole his identity to get that phone line hooked up. He was in jail when she did it!

FYI. My brother thinks she will have one of these guys at the apt when he comes home on Sat. and that this guy will try and get into a fight with him. I told him he needs to call the landlord and ask him to meet him 2 blocks from the place at a certain time and they can walk there together so there is no trouble. If they get there and this guy is there then it's his apt and the landlord's property so they both have the authority to tell the guy to leave. My brother and the landlord have an agreement that as soon as he gets out of jail this girl is OUT of the apt. He is not very smart about how to handle these things which is why I told him HAVE THE LANDLORD THERE! DO NOT try and handle someone yourself if you think they're going to get violent...especialy when you're coming home from JAIL!

ETA. Yes, I might add....he's only my HALF brother so we only share SOME genes!

[Dredly]

I would suggest documenting EVERYTHING, picture and video are extremly valuable evidence then have your brother sue for custody (Assuming he is the biological father). she is clearly a negligent mother and this will be easy to prove as she already has one kid that lives with a parent.

If there is poop all over the apartment it is a health risk... and why the hell would she have cats in the freezer? thats kind of weird.

Btw - he can't throw her out of the apartment, neither can the landlord. It is her place of residence, she'll need to be evicted through normal channels, even if she isn't on the lease.

Once again video camera will be the solution, record EVERYTHING on tape, walk up to the door and film it, film the entire encounter so that if anything happens it can be used as evidence, Might be a good idea to do a little recon first to see if the guy is there, if he is call the cops and report tresspassing and they will show up and escort the other idiot off the property.

[shefearsnothing]

Yes, I have a video camera. I told my mom that if my brother calls her this week to tell him to stop and get me on the way over there on Saturday whether the landlord is able to meet him or not. She will probably have it cleaned up by then since C&Y are going over there today (although THEY will have documentation of everything and it WILL be on record with them).

I am going to make some calls today to see if I can get him some legal aide. Not sure if they will talk to me since he can't call them himself until next week but he needs to know what he should and should not do come Saturday if she's trying to leave with his son. I mean, it would suck to find out that he let her leave with him and that he shouldn't have let her or for him to try and stop her and find out later he should have let her go with the baby, you know? There is no custody order in place either way right now but I'm guessing it's that "possession is 9/10 of the law" kind of thing even with a baby. *sigh*