# Someone's been tampering with my mail. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someones-been-tampering-with-my-mail/286959 "2005-01-27T18:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someones-been-tampering-with-my-mail/286959/1 "2005-01-27T18:53:16Z")
I’m not pissed off enough anymore to make this a Pit thread, but I had to get this off my chest. I think someone tampered with my mail. I got a 1099 from my investment company, and the enveloped had been slit open with something sharp and taped back shut. I called the banking place (it’s quite small - small enough for them to remember who I am), and they said that they remembered sending it out, and at the time, it had been shut properly. So there’s a good possibility that some yahoo out there has my social security number of federal ID number. Grrr… Anyway, I may be overreacting, but I’ve ordered a monthly credit check on myself, and will probably switch my bank because my husband’s bank offers an even more in-depth credit check that reports all bank accounts opened in your name, plus credit cards and other loans, and mine doesn’t. Has anybody here had a problem with identity theft, and how did you deal with it? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someones-been-tampering-with-my-mail/286959/2 "2005-01-27T19:02:00Z")
**overlyverbose** I’ve never had this happen but you’re right in getting a credit check and being suspicious. This sucks. I hope everything is ok. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someones-been-tampering-with-my-mail/286959/3 "2005-01-27T19:08:20Z")
The Social security Administration has a [page](http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/idtheft.htm) on their website with links to information on preventing, reporting and recovering from identity theft. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someones-been-tampering-with-my-mail/286959/4 "2005-01-27T20:05:49Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > The Social security Administration has a [page](http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/idtheft.htm) on their website with links to information on preventing, reporting and recovering from identity theft. Thanks for the link, **Q.E.D.**. And thanks for your kind wishes, **swampbear**. I really appreciate both. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someones-been-tampering-with-my-mail/286959/5 "2005-01-27T20:25:39Z")
You should definitely be taking all the precautions you’re taking, to try to protect yourself. However, there is a small possibility that the envelope was delivered to someone else & they opened it by mistake then taped it up. I’ve accidentally opened neighbor’s mail before realizing it wasn’t mine. Of course, I’ll put a note on it when I put it in the right mailbox. Good luck!!