thanks for the responses!
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Originally Posted by ShanIAm
And even though it's been a couple months since this happened, fraudsters are notorious for laying in wait so you don't connect the dots.
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that's what i'd thought. the alert i put is good for only 90 days (and then i have renew it every three months, it seems), but he has my information and could use it anytime he wants.
it just occurred to me, though, what if he decided to wait for 7 years? wouldn't it be better for him to destroy my credit now and get it over with, than for me to be forever paranoid about this one mistake i made when i was stupid and desperate?
also, as i understand it: wouldn't someone who knows my full name, my birthdate, my address, and my ss number be able to request MY credit score and changes whatever information he wants to change as necessary? plus, i was looking at my old credit score report and i've noticed that most of the number of my credit cards were printed there with only the last four digits being xxxx'd.
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I would call all of the local utility companies and put an alert that makes id required.
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what do you mean by "local," though? i live in a place where it's fairly easy to move from one city to another (and is moving to a different state even that difficult?), and i don't think calling all local utility companies would be the most efficient approach to this--especially since i'm not even sure if he in fact is a scammer.
one scenario i've considered is that while he (or someone he knows) uses my name and real address to sign up for utilities, he uses a new phone number and a new e-mail address and arranges for the bills to be paperless only and that way i'd never get the statements--although i'm not sure how this would benefit him exactly.