Morning guys.
Will keep this quick.
A few years ago I had my identity stolen and used for credit fraud. Was a nightmare of a process, but eventually got it cleared up.
Now. A friend of mine just called me and his case it a lot worse.
He has had someone physically duplicate his sim card and access his phone. They have been using his account to make calls remotely and basically hi-jacked his entire online identity. G-mail accounts, apple id, cloud info, the lot.
Passwords have been changed so that he can no longer access most of his accounts.
The police have basically been no help to him what so ever.
He was quick enough to transfer all his savings out of his account to a place no one can get it.
He is about to call veda and get a check done on his credit history to see what they have been up to.
I told him to prepare for a **** fight trying to clear everything up.
Can anyone offer any advice on how to best deal with this?
Is there a specific service that can help him through the process?
It was bad enough when I had a few applications under my name, but this is shaping up to be a lot worse than what happened to me.
Please any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks guys.
I'm leaving the country in a few hours, but will check in before I go and relay any information to him.
Cheers.
Will keep this quick.
A few years ago I had my identity stolen and used for credit fraud. Was a nightmare of a process, but eventually got it cleared up.
Now. A friend of mine just called me and his case it a lot worse.
He has had someone physically duplicate his sim card and access his phone. They have been using his account to make calls remotely and basically hi-jacked his entire online identity. G-mail accounts, apple id, cloud info, the lot.
Passwords have been changed so that he can no longer access most of his accounts.
The police have basically been no help to him what so ever.
He was quick enough to transfer all his savings out of his account to a place no one can get it.
He is about to call veda and get a check done on his credit history to see what they have been up to.
I told him to prepare for a **** fight trying to clear everything up.
Can anyone offer any advice on how to best deal with this?
Is there a specific service that can help him through the process?
It was bad enough when I had a few applications under my name, but this is shaping up to be a lot worse than what happened to me.
Please any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks guys.
I'm leaving the country in a few hours, but will check in before I go and relay any information to him.
Cheers.