I know that getting a new social security number can be a detrimental endeavor as the new SS# may be attached to someone that was recently deceased and very much in debt. Hence your credit file will be impacted in a negative fashion from the get-go.

If you get a “clean” social security number. You still have to call the credit bureaus that report for you to get the old credit file transferred to you. This includes any corporations that grant loans, credit, or you do business with. I know that this is a hassle.

Getting a new social security number may not matter if the person who stole your identity, which you may not know about, is someone in proximity to you. Family and friends can often be worse criminals than that strange neighbor down the block.

My advice is to wait it out and further learn to protect yourself from now on. Not to plug my own blog, but very soon I will be posting videos that are related to identity theft, especially phishing and etc. and I hope that you and your blog readers can benefit from it For now I wish you all the best and make sure to follow the 4 steps to the tee.

Good luck,

Radek M. Gadek

One time, my debit card wouldn’t work when I tried to pay for dinner. Called the bank on Monday. They asked me, “have you been in Mexico recently?”

“No,” I replied.

“Well, your money has.”

Fortunately, it all worked out all right, with little hassle, but still, what a pain.