Re: Possible Identity Theft - Please Advise!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zoe Miller) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hello,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Please advise, I'm worried sick about this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Zoe

This is not an answer to your question, but instead another related
question.

My wife and I have no intention of opening any new credit card
accounts or incurring any other consumer debt for the forseeable
future.  Does anyone know if its possible to get the credit agencies
to put a note on your credit report saying that you will not be
opening any new consumer credit accounts and any attempts to do so in
your name are presumably fraudulent? Or perhaps a note on the credit
report saying that all attempts to open a new account must be verified
by calling us at our home number?

Andy