My ex's hispanic girlfriend used my ID to get a job

[Drunky_Smurf]

@Dogzilla

Seriously, did you just use “irregardless”? On the SDMB? Are you new?

Irregardless of where griffin1977 commited such an offense he/she is not new as you can see by their join date.

[hausermh]

@Becky2844

As a person who used to work in the Records Division of a police dept. I can tell you—this can follow you for a very long time (re: your financing dilemma.) Go to your local police station/Safety Bldg. & file an Incident Report. (This isn’t an emergency so don’t call.) Once you have that (proof) notify your bank & lenders (credit cards et.) It’s not uncommon for ppl to claim to be somebody else & I don’t know if you could even pursue this legally—unfortunatly it’s up to victim to prove their innocence/non-involemnt. You’re going to need to check/contact the 3 credit reporting companies (like EquaFax etc.) & file…I don’t know—affadavits? to what they have. Keep a paper trail & slog thru this. And I guarantee you that at some point, like when you’re 65 & start getting Social Security, somebody is going to ask you, “…and how much did you make at Red Lobster?” There is no good side to this…I’d slash her tires.

Thank you Becky, your information is just what I was looking for. I must admit, slashing of the tires had crossed my mind…they pulled a bunch a stupid crap during the divorce, but I’m totally over it. She’s half my age and he’s…well…an idiot. She’s probably taken him for all of his money by now and moved on.

[griffin1977]

@Becky2844

As a person who used to work in the Records Division of a police dept. I can tell you—this can follow you for a very long time (re: your financing dilemma.) Go to your local police station/Safety Bldg. & file an Incident Report. (This isn’t an emergency so don’t call.) Once you have that (proof) notify your bank & lenders (credit cards et.) It’s not uncommon for ppl to claim to be somebody else & I don’t know if you could even pursue this legally—unfortunatly it’s up to victim to prove their innocence/non-involemnt. You’re going to need to check/contact the 3 credit reporting companies (like EquaFax etc.) & file…I don’t know—affadavits? to what they have. Keep a paper trail & slog thru this. And I guarantee you that at some point, like when you’re 65 & start getting Social Security, somebody is going to ask you, “…and how much did you make at Red Lobster?” There is no good side to this…I’d slash her tires.

Couple of points about this (though I’d agree to the general gist, I had my ID stolen and used 8 years ago, and not 100% sure there’s still not crap out there):

• Some agencies will ask for affidavits (which is just statement saying “on threat of perjury prosecution I promise this is true”), but others will try and convince you need a NOTARIZED affidavit (which you have to pay a notary to co-sign). This is NOT the case don’t let them convince otherwise. This is one aspect where having a police report helps, it keeps these kind of demands to a minimum.
• It is NOT on you to prove ANYTHING (though it may feel like it at times). Credit report agencies (and anyone else how keeps similar records about you like collections agencies) must provide evidence that their information is accurate or they HAVE TO remove it, by law.

I’d also repeat the info in my post above (as it really screwed me over when this happened to me). If you think she may have used your ID for anything banking related (checks, accounts, etc) then check your Chex Systems report, this info WILL NOT be in your regular credit report.

[Carol_the_Impaler]

@Ace309

Being a noncitizen makes it difficult or impossible to find work legally, so her noncitizen status would explain why she might use a fake or stolen social security number. (To pretend she’s a citizen and legally allowed to work in the US.)

There are legal non-citizen statuses that allow people to work in the US. Legal Resident Aliens, for example (generally known as people with green cards). You don’t have to be a citizen to work in the US, but you do have to be legally authorized to do so.

[hausermh]

@griffin1977

Couple of points about this (though I’d agree to the general gist, I had my ID stolen and used 8 years ago, and not 100% sure there’s still not crap out there):

• Some agencies will ask for affidavits (which is just statement saying “on threat of perjury prosecution I promise this is true”), but others will try and convince you need a NOTARIZED affidavit (which you have to pay a notary to co-sign). This is NOT the case don’t let them convince otherwise. This is one aspect where having a police report helps, it keeps these kind of demands to a minimum.
• It is NOT on you to prove ANYTHING (though it may feel like it at times). Credit report agencies (and anyone else how keeps similar records about you like collections agencies) must provide evidence that their information is accurate or they HAVE TO remove it, by law.

I’d also repeat the info in my post above (as it really screwed me over when this happened to me). If you think she may have used your ID for anything banking related (checks, accounts, etc) then check your Chex Systems report, this info WILL NOT be in your regular credit report.

Thank you Griffin for that valuable information. I did contact chex systems last night and should receive the info sometime next week. After I have that document, I will then begin the “journey” of getting this matter cleaned up. It’s very nice to know what they can and can’t tell me what I should do, expecially about the notary. Great info!

[Mosier]

@Koxinga

You can get a state driver’s license as a noncitizen, which you can then use to cash your checks.

ETA: Not saying necessarily that’s what happened, just that it’s possible. Also, that’s assuming that a person is a noncitizen but in the country legally. What a straight out illegal alien would do, I don’t know.

But the checks from her employer would be made out to the wrong person! She’d have to present someone else’s ID in order to cash them.

[griffin1977]

@Mosier

But the checks from her employer would be made out to the wrong person! She’d have to present someone else’s ID in order to cash them.

As I understand it in cases like its usually only the SSN itself that is used. The government isn’t (or wasn’t, may have changed recently) clever enough to match names to SSNs.

In a lot of cases SSN is simply conjured out of the ether for this purpose.

[Yllaria]

@Becky2844

. . . Go to your local police station/Safety Bldg. & file an Incident Report. (This isn’t an emergency so don’t call.) . . .

@racer72

Call the police and report the theft of your identity. . .

Many Police Departments are set up to allow you to enter an Incident Report online, if you’d rather do that than go in and stand in line. If they have online reporting available, they won’t want to take the time to take a report over the phone. If you’re online and choosing between types of reports, choose fraud.

ETA - print a copy of the report before hitting enter. Print out and confirmation and report number that they’ll email to you.

[Becky2844]

@Yllaria

Many Police Departments are set up to allow you to enter an Incident Report online, if you’d rather do that than go in and stand in line. If they have online reporting available, they won’t want to take the time to take a report over the phone. If you’re online and choosing between types of reports, choose fraud.

ETA - print a copy of the report before hitting enter. Print out and confirmation and report number that they’ll email to you.

Don’t know how to reply to posts w/o it copying the whole thing so, sorry there, but…
speaking of Fraud…one charge that always made me laugh was Passing a Forged Intrument. Do you know how much that would HURT.