7 People Who Are Most Likely to Steal Your Identity

People often don't realize that the chances of someone who they know are most likely the person who may steal their identity. You might discover some people who you never would have suspected before. Here are the seven people who are most likely to steal your identity.

Your Former Spouse

Your former spouse already knows all of your personal information due to being married to you. It makes you an easy target for identity theft by your ex spouse. He or she knows everything about you. You might want to keep an eye on your credit report for several years. You need to constantly have a company put a fraud alert on your credit report so you know the minute that the ex tries to do anything.

Your Grandchildren

Grandchildren will often charge things to grandma's credit cards or write checks to companies. It can go undetected for months if the charges are something that grandma and the rest of the family member won't notice right off the bat. Normal charges that don't seem unusual, but just a little high will not usually be questioned.

Your Children

Your daughter may use your name and social security number on a ton of applications online without you really knowing about it. She relies on you not pressing charges against her because she is family. She counts on you telling any authority figures that you don't want to press charges because you gave her permission to use your social security number on other things already.

Your son might try something like forging your name and social security number online to make purchases such as home loans or other loans. The son might try to use your credit cards to make purchases that you won't question when the statement arrives. He might be buying cigarettes on your credit cards. He might even use your ID to buy alcohol if he looks allot like you. Some dads and sons look so much alike that it is hard to tell the difference.

Your Siblings

I know two sisters that look so much alike that people think they are twins. The sisters are nearly ten years apart in age. One is nearly thirty years old. The other sister is only eighteen years old. The one sister could steal the older sisters ID to buy alcohol and get into nude clubs in Las Vegas, Nevada. The other sister could steal identity from the young sister to run from the law. The older sister can change her appearance by losing weight enough to convince law enforcement that she is her sister.

Your brother can steal your ID to cash your checks and run depending upon the amount. The desire will be stronger to steal the checks if he knows that you are rich or make a lot more money than him. He won't steal a large amount if he plans to stick around but if he plans to run it will be in the thousands.

Your Friends

Be a little worried about any friend that tends to study your checkbook closely. The person might be trying to memorize your account numbers. The person can make several purchases using your account numbers online using a bogus billing address. The products will most likely be sent to a PO BOX under a fake name as well.

Your Acquaintances

Acquaintances are people like the handyman, the cleaning woman, and the plant person who tends to the plants in your home. It also may be your interior designer as well since she has access to the entire house.

The handyman may steal your identity items such as drivers license, social security card, and birth certificate to hide his extensive criminal history from others in attempts to start a new life.

The cleaning woman may even steal your identity when she uses your medicaid or medicare card to get more refills that you might not notice til the insurance statement shows up or you attempt to refill.

The plant woman might end up stealing your tax information out of the area since she has access to the entire place. The plant woman might be able to get more information from going through personal mail when you are not looking at her.

Your interior designer may end up taking pain pills from the elderly person that lives with you in your home. She may be an addict that doesn't want to get help. She might attempt to replace the missing pills with the same color vitamins so that the person taking the pill isn't likely to notice..

The seven people who are most likely to steal your identity are former spouses, grandchildren, and daughter. Keep your eye on your brother, sister, friends, and acquaintances that have access to your personal information at their fingertips.