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YourPsychicFriend t1_izfuewe wrote

Say you report an ID theft via police report — as I recently had to — and the police never contact you. Were you ever assigned a detective, and did you find that you needed to badger them to look at your case? It’s been a month for me and I don’t know if the cops will be any help…

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losangelestimes OP t1_izfw7z4 wrote

Oh, you absolutely have to follow up. I did. Multiple times. I called the station repeatedly and asked for the name of the detective assigned to my case, and I regularly left him voicemails and emailed him. He was not particularly helpful. The only reason I know who stole my identity is because they were caught doing other crimes.

Really, the benefit of reporting identity theft to the police is having that police report as evidence when debt collectors start calling you. It is statistically extremely unlikely that police will do much to help you.

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