This is a story about identity theft and how I discovered my identity had been stolen. Some of the headaches, the endless paperwork and the things I wished I would have known years ago. I am determined to get back to a FICO score above 720
OK, so I signed up with Equifax and got my online credit report from them. I thought that credit reports were all the same but it seems that all three agencies have significant differences so obtain all three of them just to make sure. I discovered that there was a third account that had been [...]
Should I have known better? Would those extra two months really have made a significant difference or would I have been in the same place?
Here is how it all started, my wife at the time and I went shopping for a new car for her. The lease on the BMW X3 had [...]