Your identity and personal information are valuable. Criminals can find out your personal details and use them to open bank accounts and get credit cards, loans, state benefits and documents such as passports and driving licenses in your name.
Unfortunately, due to nature of identity fraud, often it's not possible to say how fraudsters got hold of your personal records, as they can use variety of methods. However, thjere may be things you can do to identify any other misuse and prevent it happening again. You can get more information and advice from:
- Home Office website http://www.identitytheft.org.uk/
- Credit Industry Fraud Avoidance System (CIFAS), the UK's fraud prevention service, website http://www.cifas.org.uk/
CIFAS also provides a Protective Registration Service to help people to protect their details from being misused.
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