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Got hit with credit card fraud!
First time ever, have been buying online for close to 20 years. I think somebody locally did it though because the credit card companies said the credit was applied for in store, maybe they swiped my card and somehow retrieved pertinent information. They signed up for 2 credit cards, in person, and immediately maxed them out. Game Stop and Kohl's.
I was very lucky to catch it, they screwed up.
They used old addresses of mine that I have not lived in in over a year. Fortunately, one of the addresses was my dads house. The second one was an old apartment. Social Security Number was transposed on one of the cards, which I thought was strange that it transposed number still worked.
The first one I found because my dad received the credit card and bill to his house. The second one I only found after joining Trans Union and running a credit report.
Trans Union seems to have some "credit lockdown" service. Has anyone ever tried something like that?
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