Identity Theft

[Xath]

So yesterday, while trying to buy a car, they ran my boyfriend's credit. His identity had been stolen a few years ago, but he thought he'd taken care of it. Apparently not. His new credit report showed that he had an open maxed out $6000 credit card and had written over a dozen more bad checks. He's never even had a credit card. And it wasn't like it was instant credit either. lt was an AmEx card.

How do these people keep doing this? And what should he do to get rid of those bad reports and make sure it doesn't happen again?

 

[der_kluge]

That's rough.

go here:

http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/recovering_idt.html

 

[Xath]

Thanks