My identity has been stolen?

There have millions ways to steal someone identity and once a thief has your personal information, they can max out your credit cards, drain your bank account, and ruin your credit rating. It is very dangerous for us as a victim of identity theft. Things that you should to do immediately, if you think you are the victim of identity theft.

First of all, we need report to the authorities who are handle about this issue. If we report it to the authorities, maybe they had some ways to help you recover this issue. If the authorities can't help you to recover it, it also can be a record of them. Therefore, they can refer to the record to enhance the tools to avoid the issue happen again.

Furthermore, we need to close the account immediately. When you found that your identity has been stolen you should to close up the account immediately, so that the thief can't to access the to it account again. Especially of the credit card number, you should call to the department who are in-charge on this issue, to freeze you credit card account. Hence, the thief can't to use it.

Lastly, we need to remove all of the information that we had set in our account. It is to prevent the thief use your information to do anythings else that we hard to determine. Especially, your home address, phone number and so on. Those are the personal information, if we did not remove all of the information. The thief can use it for another purpose.

In conclusion, put our personal information online are dangerous for us as a victim of identity thief. We can't determine the thief when they stole our identity. Thus, we need to prevent it happen and also protect our personal information carefully. We also need to take it seriously.

Here has some guideline for you if your identity has been stolen.

Written By: 

Chin Hui San

Bachelor of Public Relations (Honours)

Tunku Abdul Rahman University College