Victim of the Economy

So as Valentines Day comes and goes for most, I find out that I am haunted by that day.

While I was spending one of the most wonderful days with my partner d0m, someone else was celebrating Halloween by pretending to be me and opening about 3 credit cards under my name.

Well over the weekend I got letters in the mail from these credit cards "thanking" me for opening a new account, but that they had some information that was not matching up and that they needed me to contact them and give them the right info.

So this morning I called all three companies and got the cards canceled. Then I had to call all three credit reporting companies and have a fraud alert put on my credit. So now I have the long fight ahead of me to get back my identity and hope that they have not done anything substantial to ruin my credit.

So just a word of advice to all that read this, check your credit and make sure everything is ok. For more information go to www.ftc.gov/freereports.