Has anyone been a victim of identity theft?? :-(

[JTrigger]

I was a victim back in 2001... royal pain in the @ss to call all the 3 major bureaus or whatever... then call everything else to get extra passwords placed on all credit cards, loan information, bank cards, everything, it is UNbelievably time consuming getting things straightened away, so believe me, I can empathize!... sheesh... and you feel so horribly used! They picked up mine because they had inadvertantly sent out a CC application to my old address in Los Angeles at undergrad (which had my SSN or SIN here) and the person had applied for the card, submitted a change of address, and the CC company from Texas called my mom in CA to verify my current address and bingo and she gave them my # in Canada and they called me and told me they tried to call the perpetrator at the number he listed and he screwed up because when they asked for my name he didn't recognize it, but then they said the were calling about a CC approval and the idiot said, oh yah, that's me and then hung up!

JT