Thank you for all the great advice and suggestions regarding this frustrating case of identity theft. I'm surprised to hear that this type of thing is so common and even more surprised that it was happening so many years ago. Naturally we automatically felt that due to our current computer age contributed to this type of illegal occurrence. We have contacted our bank and credit card companies. My husband spent most of today TRYING to contact Equifax etc and was not yet successful. Tried the phone calling and never was able to speak to any one directly. Went on-line to fill out the form which he did and hit submit only to receive the message back that submission was not successful due to their system being off line. So, tomorrow's another day of calling & filling out forms. I did notify social security office and was advised to notify the Federal Trade Commission. Would love to know how this happened but I doubt we will ever know. The Federal gov gives out no information to the victim!
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