>>>*Probably lots of people would be surprised if they did some serious searching of themselves online.

Some types of ID theft involve other things besides credit card numbers.

We had a license renewal show up in our mail for at first glance I thought was my truck. A closer look showed it wasn't my truck, wrong plate. It had my name and address, but a fake driver's license number and other ID didn't match. How they got the tags I don't know. Someone did that to avoid having to do the emissions tests.

Then someone in Michigan had a credit card with my name, accessing my account. Yet the only one issued was in my pocket?? We tracked that down to a Safeway store temporary employee, part of a national ring. Got it stopped in one day, money refunded.

Another one is to get a checking account number, which of course is given out with each check written. Thieves simply use a computer and put that account number on a check with a different name and address.

Yep, banks will cash them without even slowing down, it was disconcerting to open our commercial statement and find checks written for Pizza deliveries on little personal checks, this being out commercial account with large business checks. Bye US bank for that one.

I finally went to my current bank and locked all of the accounts, nothing can be withdrawn without our signature in person.

Except checks. So the only answer is every morning and every evening I open and verify every account. And I require the bank to send us the cancelled checks so each one can be verified, but even that means they arrive far too late to help.

The only answer is to check and recheck every day, ID theft is big business and they are busy....*EB