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

[Delphinus]

Yeah, Telus was one of the first places she talked to. Supposedly they will take care of the collection agency. Who knows how fast they get called off though. What I'm wondering if it's the same case or a different case that they're calling me again looking for "Brad". We shall see how it goes.

Apparently you can have your credit file flagged so that if there's any change to it, someone has to call you to verify. Now I guess my question is, if this sort of fraud is becoming more common, why aren't they automatically going to that sort of setup?

But then you know, cell phone merchants and utilities aren't doing anybody any favours by accepting these applications without going through a more rigorous verification process. It seems to me if they got more diligent, more of these cases would get nipped in the bud.

According to Human Resouces Canada, there's nothing that can be done to flag your file or whatever in the case that there's someone running around using your SIN. That's handy.