My wife's HR department told her someone was trying to file for unemployment under her name. This has happened to about 20 employees over the past year or so. A group in Florida was busted somewhat recently but it is happening again.

She had to contact the state and also has to file a police report at our local department.

I signed myself up for credit monitoring and will do the same for her, however, that will not help with this type of theft. I am aware of a client having a similar issue with someone filing a tax return under his name.

For some reason these types of identity thefts have happened to a lot of hospital employees.

That is crazy. It is amazing at how many different schemes scammers will use. I hope it works out for her.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
I signed myself up for credit monitoring and will do the same for her, however, that will not help with this type of theft. I am aware of a client having a similar issue with someone filing a tax return under his name.

For that kind of thing you need identity theft protection, such as offered by LifeLock or IdentityForce.

After having researched it I have come to the conclusion that it's better to have identity theft protection and freeze your reports at the major credit reporting agencies and ChexSystems, rather than have credit monitoring.