Identity Theft
If you or someone you know has been victimized by fraud, ID theft or any other crime please read this:
Financial Identity Theft
This is the most typical kind of identity theft. It involves using some else’s identity to acquire goods or services. When equipped with another individual’s personal information, a criminal can acquire a bank loan posing as the individual and keep the money. Criminals may also be able to take over another individual’s checking or savings account or pass bad checks posing as another. These illegal actions usually cause severe credit problems for the victim and can cause them to lose lots of money.
ALS Investigations can do two things for a client of this crime. Clear the credit damage done to an individual by proving his innocent to credit agencies and/or banks. More importantly, we can track down the criminal by investigating the trail of damage he left.
Identity Cloning and Concealment
This type of crime involves a criminal using another individual’s identity to hide from authorities, perhaps to avoid arrest or creditor’s. This crime can cause many future damages to the victim of this identity theft, including financial or criminal identity theft.
If you think you may be the victim of this crime, we can investigate whether there is someone posing as your good name before he or she is able to deal you damage.
Criminal Identity Theft
When a criminal posing under your identity is arrested, he could be released while having the charge be put on the victim’s criminal record. This could result in an arrest for the victim if he or she fails to attend to court or other problems for the victim.
ALS Investigations can recover your criminal record from this damage and track down the culprit who used your name for his or her evasion of the law.
Business/Commercial Identity Theft
This crime is where someone uses another’s business name to acquire credit.
Be Aware of these and take measures to protect yourself!
- Dumpster Diving (going through the victim’s mailbox or trash)
- Researching the victim
- Eaves Dropping
- Stealing computer Information (Trojan horses, hacking)
- Impersonating organizations or businesses
- Browsing social networks
- Changing the victim’s mailing address to receive their mail
