I had something similar happen, where someone opened a Best Buy card in my name and bought a Macbook, some Airpods, and I think an iPhone or something? Out of NY. I immediately called the card people, closed the card and disputed the charges, and went to work ASAP freezing all my credit stuff. Sounds like you're on the right track already, close down everything, change your passwords, freeze your credit, and big one, call the companies involved and let them know it's fraudulent. You've got no way of knowing what else is out there, but having those reports on file is gonna help if any further weirdness comes up.
We have credit monitoring and I had my identity stolen. Someone opened a military star account and purchased about $3000 worth of stuff via catalog, I saw the notification and immediately closed the account. The order was canceled and sent to their fraud department. They never did anything or investigated.
Wife and I have a freeze to this day and only temp unfreeze for 48 hours when we're going to buy cars, etc.
It's been 5 years and they made 13 attempts to open accounts, take out loans, and purchase stuff in my name, that I know of.
They're batting 0.000.
But I have to pay for a service for wife and I every month, which sucks.
Good info/advice.
I was trying to think "outside the box" though and figure out how I could access these/"MY" funds......
if there was something there, to get the a*hole(s) back.
I mean if they opened a bank account in my name, there's no real damage there. Right?
And this Venmo Debit card is just a debit card -- meaning there'd have to be money in said account(s) for it to even be useful. (on the Venmo site it says no credit check is required too anyways for a debit, versus a credit card would require one)
It doesn't make much sense though that whoever did this would have my address listed though and the card go to me. Unless they wanted me to sign up for the direct deposit (with this Venmo debit card) & "sign" my paychecks overs to them and into the Bancorp account?
The bank account listed is "Bancorp"......never heard of them, and the website doesn't even show a login or anything. Fake, perhaps?
And on the topic of fraud/stealing identities, it's pretty stupid that you're assigned
one social security number and if your info is compromised you're still stuck with it and it can always be used & you need to watch your back all the time....just like you're saying/been dealing with
@GTIfan99
Which service do you use btw?