Stolen Wallet with Credit Cards

August 19, 2008 by idhelper

Contact your credit card issuers immediately by getting their phone numbers, along with your account numbers, from monthly billing statements. Get new cards with new numbers sent to you (if this is their policy). But don't stop there.

If your driver's license was stolen along with your wallet then contact your state's department of motor vehicles right away. Follow their procedures for having a "fraud alert" attached to your license number as you request a new license.

If any other cards were taken, such as those attached with memberships of any kind, then you'll need to call those organizations as well. Have fraud alerts posted to your accounts. Identity thieves typically use these types of accounts to establish the brand new "fraudulent" ones.

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