My identity has been stolen. Someone has hold of my previous address and the sundry details required to open in-store credit accounts. This is a pain more than anything else as I have to cancel everything and let everyone know that the Chris Brennan who applied for an Argos, Next, House of Fraser, John Lewis credit card that it wasn’t actually me.
The interesting thing is how simple it is to solve the problem. I wrote a piece about identity theft a few years ago and quoted some hefty research about how it can take years to get your identity back. In reality all you have to do is enroll with CIFAS and every time someone applies for credit in your name, including you, they run extra identity checks. One the thieves know this they’ll stop according to CIFAS.
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