Re: Possible Identity Theft - Please Advise!

>Subject: Possible Identity Theft - Please Advise!
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (Zoe Miller)
>Date: 12/1/03 9:02 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Hello,
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>My Mother made a copy in a liquor store of a document she needed for
>the unemployment office.  She made the mistake of leaving the original
>in the copier when she left, and the paper has her social security
>number, name, address and everything on it.  She went back to the
>store later and there was no sign of it.  I'm really afraid that
>someone took it and will now use the info to open accounts and ruin
>her credit.  Is there anything she can do BEFORE anything happens,
>like alert the credit agencies, her creditors, or something?
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>Please advise, I'm worried sick about this.
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>Thanks,
>Zoe
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Have her call the 3 credit bureaus and put a "fraud alert" on her file

Marianne in Scranton PA