O/T What to do now

My wife has charge of a older lady's bill paying. Mostly just paying the care supplied by a nursing home. So the other day she gets a credit up date information on the lady's bank account. My wife supplies everything about her self also. SS number, mother's maden name home address. I also got one for the family trust account. I called my bank they said they don't send out asking for information on accounts. I didn't go to the link. My wife found out the information supplied by her was a scam. She got another pass word so that account is safe. Now someone has all her personal info. I signed up with Life Lock. They will notify her when someone tries to use her SS number. It has been two days, I am sure they crooks don't sit on this info. Anyone have a idea what else I can do? Sure miss the old days when we didn't lock the house, and left the keys in the car all the time. Stan

I couldn't say how (do not know), but I would get a hold of SS and find out what your options are to monitor whats reported to them. Same with IRS.

It could be years before this comes back to bite you.........

I think I'd keep up the Lifelock, at least you got some kind of protection. I fell for an email scam once, so easy to do, especially for those of us that aren't computer geniuses. Any way some good work on the part of our ISP and a new password and it's all fixed. Fortuantely no really detrimental information was involved.

You implied that you know which email was the source of the identity theft? Have you turned it over to the FBI Cyber crimes office? They can trace the ISP address, you know? One thing I do when an unsolicited email ask for things, such as my SS#, I give the correct phone number and a completely false SS#. In about half the cases, they will call me, at which time I generally laugh at them. When I was stationed in Memphis, I recieved a call at work from some scammer who started by asking how I had been, like we were old friends. My chief, warrent officer and department head were in my office when I recieved the call. I asked him if he knew me, to which he said he did, and that we were friends. I told him kinda loud that I knew he was lying. If he knew me, he won"t want to be my friend. My department head started laughing, and I continued with telling the scammer that there were three people in that room, each knew me, yet, none of them liked me, which was actually true of the department head. I then hung up on him. My favorite one was a mouthy jerk that called me at work demanding immediate payment by phone. These calls always came to me at work. Real bill collectors speak nice. This guy was screaming about how he was going to call the police and send me to jail, so clearly he was full of it. I told him to hold for the police chief and handed the phone to my chief who started asking him who he was and how he got a secure Homeland security telephone number. It wasn"t really a secure number. we were just the engineering shop, but it was funny.

Freeze your credit! Look at Clark Howard . com for the link. that will stop them cold .