Learning that someone has opened a credit card in your name, maxed them out, and left your credit history in shambles can be very frustrating and annoying.
Since identity thieves may have the credit card statements sent to another address making it difficult to detect when someone has opened a credit card in your name, and the victims may not even know about fraudulent accounts until they try applying for a credit card or loan and are denied because of a past due balance for an account they didn’t know they had, here’s what to do when someone opens a credit card in your name.