I got freaked out yesterday at Sears. Wendy and I were purchasing a new TV for the living room, and the sales person offers us a discount and 12 month 0% financing if we if we get a Sears charge card. I agree and type my name., drivers license# and SS# into their little kiosk. Gregory A Burr shows up on the moniter but with a Rhode Island phone # and address and I am living here in Connecticut. I cancel the Sears application and buy the TV with my Master Card. We immediately drive home and I am freaking out thinking that some has applied for credit with my SS # and bought a Porsche or a Cigarette Boat or God knows what type of fraudulent action with my identity. As soon as we get home and I walk in the door I go to Facebook search Gregory Burr and sure enough my exact name pops up with the Rhode Island address and phone number we saw on the Sears moniter. Next I phone Life Lock and sign up for one year subscription for identity theft protection so I can see my Credit Reports. Im still freaked out and start looking over my credit reports. It seems that my credit history is being confused with this other Gregory A Burr from Rhode Island who happens to be 6 years older than me and has closed a number of accounts with relatively small unpaid balances. The good news is that there didnt seem to be any huge unpaid delinquint loans on the reports. Now 3 hours has passed since we were at Sears. I feel much better after looking at my Credit reports and see that there just seems to be confusion here between two Gregory A Burrs. The Rhode Island Greg has not been as good a boy as me with his credit. On Monday I will call the three credit bureau to start to clean up my reports. Life Lock or some identity guard is now some thing I will never be with out. If any identity theft is committed against me now I will be alerted and I have up to a million $ in coverage to square away fraud against me. Just sayin
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:24:38 +0000
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