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How can I tell if I'm a victim of identity theft?

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Speaker: How can I tell if I am a victim of identity theft?

Linda Sherry:There are a few things you can do to find out if you are a victim of identity theft and you can watch carefully all of your financial accounts, your credit card accounts, your bank accounts, to make sure that no one has used your account without authorization. Also you can watch your mail. A lot of ID theft is accomplished through the mail. For instance, they might divert your mail; they might steal a credit card solicitation and send it back in two different addresses, get a credit card that way. You should also make sure that you know that at all times that where your personal information is. Someone could come into your house, for instance, a contractor, a cleaner or whatever and steal some personal information from right-out of your house, if you don't have it under lock and key.

Expert: Linda Sherry

Director, National Priorities

http://www.consumer-action.org

Email: editor@consumer-action.org

Linda Sherry, Consumer Action’s director of national priorities and one of the organization’s chief spokespersons, joined the San Francisco-based national consumer education and advocacy group in 1994 from a background as a weekly newspaper reporter.Consumer Action (www.consumer-action.org), founded in 1971, has a national reputation for free multilingual consumer education on personal finance More »