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Information and Instructions: This packet is to be completed once you have
contacted Blooming Grove Police Department and
obtained a police report number related  to your identity theft case.
To obtain a police report number call 845-496-9161.
Please keep track of your report number as creditors,
financial institutions and credit reporting agencies will ask for it.

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Victims Identity Packet

 


 

Identity Theft
    

Originally  the Internet was designed by the government,  to provide a communications network
that would function in the event that some of the sites were destroyed by nuclear attack
If the most direct route was not available, routers would direct traffic around the network via alternate routes.
     The early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians.
It was not user friendly as we know it today.   There were no home or office personal computers in those days,
and anyone who used it, whether a computer professional or an engineer or scientist or librarian,
had to learn to use a very complex system.
     Since the Internet was initially funded by the government,  originally it's use was  limited to research,
education, and government uses. Commercial uses were prohibited unless they directly served
the goals of education and research.
This policy continued until the early 90's, when independent commercial  networks began to grow.
    Today we have computers at home, available in malls, internet cafes' and just about everywhere.  We pay
our bills online, do our banking and now shopping online has become common place  As you and I both know
people are generally decent and honest, however there are people out there that do not live with our same
standards of honesty and integrity.
     At one time or another you yourself, a friend or someone in your family may be the victim of internet fraud.
I have supplied two links in the event you are a victim.


  Take the time out to report it! 

     Report it for two reasons;  first the fraud committed against you has a chance of being rectified and
you may get some form of relief and secondly, you prevent the fraudulent company from committing
a fraud against someone else in the future.  

 


Internet Fraud Complaint

National Fraud Information


One last thing to remember!

     If you have been the victim of an internet fraud, you should immediately run and continue to
monitor your credit history for a period of six months by getting a credit report from any of the three
companies below.  If you contact the company direct and advise them that you have been a victim
of an internet fraud, you may be eligible to receive your first credit report free of charge.


 


Equifax

Experian

TransUnion

 

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