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Identity Theft Verification Passport

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Identity theft, which occurs when someone uses another’s personal information to obtain credit or evade criminal liability, is quickly becoming one of the most common types of fraud. Its victims can spend an enormous amount of time cleaning up the mess the thieves have made of their good name and credit record.

Until now, those affected by identity theft have had few ways to establish their innocence and reassert control over their information.

Attorney General’s Office is taking innovative action to fight this particularly harmful form of crime. As part of his duty to protect consumers and to assist victims of crime, he has brought together a coalition of agencies with the special mission of helping identity theft victims through a unique program called the Identity Theft Verification PASSPORT Program.

Under the PASSPORT program, victims reporting identity theft to local authorities will be given step-by-step information about how to alert creditors to fraudulent activity in their names, and simple, fill-in-the-blank affidavits to send to credit bureaus and creditors. The cornerstone of PASSPORT is the card victims can show to creditors and law enforcement personnel establishing that they have been the victimized.

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