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Article: Identity theft growing fast, takes time to untangle.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2004
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Byline: Lorene Yue
When an errant item showed up on Chantal Perreault's banking statement in October, she thought it was simply a misdirected payment. But as the Las Vegas resident delved into the details of the $700 deposit, she found that she had become another casualty of identity fraud.
First there was the disputed banking deposit, then there were letters thanking her boyfriend for opening up credit accounts with JC Penney and Wal-Mart. A salesperson from Cingular called to find out why Perreault's boyfriend wanted to open two more accounts when he already had one with the cellular phone carrier.
"I now have fraud alerts on all three of my ...