This is stressful and embarrassing. I want to open my own business, but it may be impossible with this unresolved problem hanging over my head. We don't know what to do. Two of the card companies have cleared my parents's name, but the third has turned the account over to a collection agency. The agency doesn't believe Mom and Dad didn't authorize the account.
Identity theft is a problem that reaches into every state.
One of my constituents had to deal with this problem several years ago. In June of 1997, on the night before her wedding, a woman stole Carla Chadwick s purse. Ms. Chadwick, a resident of Burlington, Vermont, canceled her credit cards and assumed that the story would end there. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning of her nightmare. For the next two years the thief assumed Ms. Chadwick s identity, and went on a cross-country spending spree, damaging Ms. Chadwick s credit along the way.