Deborah
W Allis,#2Consumer Comment
Thu, June 02, 2011
You should immediately get copies of all your credit reports and see what else is going on. You can also lock down your credit through the credit reporting companies and have them put on them that you are a victim of identity theft. Something similar happened to me several years back, and ultimately this was what I had to do to stop it.
Once you've assessed the damage done, file a police report and a complaint with the FTC (the latter can be done online).
I suspect lenders will one day have to resort to biometrics to confirm the identity of borrowers before long, at the rate ID theft is increasing.