ID Theft: Battling ID Theft

If you are a victim of ID theft, there are several steps you need to take to battle the crime.

Once you have taken all the necessary steps in reporting the crime you must learn modus operandi that will help you cope and win the battle.

It is important to be accurate when describing your crime to the law, FTC, credit bureaus and other sources.

If you have organized notes and information available, the authorities will have more available to them to find the perpetrator.

Thus, keeping all documentation linking to the crime is important, even if you feel it is not.

Therefore, setup a filing system outside of your computer and store the information in a safe area.

If you must, rent a box at the bank to store you files, rather than taking a chance with storing them at your home.

Thus, fires, floods and other natural disasters can destroy all your belongings in one sweep; therefore keeping your files in a box at a bank is much safer.

You should also keep copies at a filing cabinet at home as a backup measure.

It is important to keep witnesses available or evidence of your whereabouts if you are victim of identity theft.

Remember, the criminal has your information and capable of using it freely without notice, thus you never know the state of mind the criminal stores.

Hypothetically speaking, per se a psychopath steals your identity commits a murder or series of murders using your identity in your area...Whom do you think is going to catch the blame.

Of course, this hypothetic case is over dramatized, but what if?

If you have a mental history of disorders, the authorities are not going to care if your identity is stolen at the time of arrest.

The only hope you will have is to have evidence and witnesses available to protect your name.

Now, the media has not to my knowledge reported the arrest of the victims who lost their identity, however it has happened and will happen again.

Once more, what if the identity thief uses your driving license pulled over and arrest...Do you know what the Secretary of State is storing in their files under your name?

If the perpetrator is pulled over for drinking and driving and you have not reported the crime to the Secretary of State or Department of Motor Vehicles, thus when you re-apply for your driver license or update your license the department may reject your renewal and your privileges may be suspended.

As you can see, identity theft extends further than most crimes, since in many instances the victims are persecuted further by the law, credit bureaus, creditors, and many other sources.

Therefore, you should never give the original copies of any documentation to anyone; rather give the proper authorities copies of your notes, and other documentation.

Identity thieves steal because they can, because they find it entertaining, or else greed and desire is dancing inside their mind.

Why you, because the thief does not care who he or she hurts, and you are nothing more than an object to his desire and greed.

Identity thieves are out to get every one that they feel has something to offer them.

Therefore, do not feel as though you are targeted for persecution (although you are), rather remember, that thieves do not care who they hurt, or who they attack.