Sombeech
06-12-2007, 03:08 PM
20,000 Identity Theft Victims Will be Notified in Utah This Week
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=1340285
Utah authorities are sending out notices to people who have become victims of identity theft. The first round of letters is going out this week.
One hundred letters are going out this week to Utahns whose Social Security numbers are being used by other people. Assistant Attorney General Richard Hamp says most of those numbers are being used by illegal immigrants. "The biggest problem when someone else is using your number, then what they do goes on your credit rating, and the biggest issue is destroying your credit rating and then your ability to purchase."
Hamp says the Division of Workforce Services has identified perhaps 20,000 Utahns whose numbers have been compromised. They hope to let them know soon.
The letters will also tell them to check their child's social security number. "We want just to gauge a response. If we get a lot of people calling in it looks like they're compromised then we take further steps," says Curt Stewart with the Department of Workforce Services.
Stewart says they found out through cross-checking databases that thousands of Utahns' numbers are being used by multiple people to collect wages. They are starting to notify Utahns on public assistance whose children have a social security number collecting at least $1,000 last quarter.
For more information on identity theft, click on the link to the right, or call 801-281-1267.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=1340285
Utah authorities are sending out notices to people who have become victims of identity theft. The first round of letters is going out this week.
One hundred letters are going out this week to Utahns whose Social Security numbers are being used by other people. Assistant Attorney General Richard Hamp says most of those numbers are being used by illegal immigrants. "The biggest problem when someone else is using your number, then what they do goes on your credit rating, and the biggest issue is destroying your credit rating and then your ability to purchase."
Hamp says the Division of Workforce Services has identified perhaps 20,000 Utahns whose numbers have been compromised. They hope to let them know soon.
The letters will also tell them to check their child's social security number. "We want just to gauge a response. If we get a lot of people calling in it looks like they're compromised then we take further steps," says Curt Stewart with the Department of Workforce Services.
Stewart says they found out through cross-checking databases that thousands of Utahns' numbers are being used by multiple people to collect wages. They are starting to notify Utahns on public assistance whose children have a social security number collecting at least $1,000 last quarter.
For more information on identity theft, click on the link to the right, or call 801-281-1267.