honestliving
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Maryland
Long story short. A business acquaintance steals and uses our Fed Tax ID number, our Duns number and checking account number, to acquire credit accounts for his own benefit. He uses these accounts to build his own business, pays late or not at all because they are not in his name. Most recently, we find that he is not only using our credentials, but has now begun to use our company name! He has had goods and services delivered to his home with accounts he created in our name! He has affected our credit so badly that our creditors now believe we are located at HIS address! Not to mention that he has left a wake of debt behind, again IN OUR NAME! He has destroyed in 2 years, what it took my husband and I to build in 15 years!
We have faught with creditors, lawyers and collection agencies over the debt that this person created. They cannot and will not do anything to relieve us unless we have a police report. The police will not take a report because they feel it's a civil matter. They refer us to the States Attorneys office, well, they won't help unless we have a... you guessed it... police report. I'm spinning my wheels here. I can sue the guy, but really, that will only cost me more money, do nothing to put him behind bars and chances are, he'll never have to pay anything since all of his assets are in his wife's name who doesn't even carry his last name!
I've just began the process to contact the FBI, but I fear that will be another dead end. His actions have caused our credit and business irreparable harm and from what I can tell, he's going to get away with it all!
Seems no one can do anything about it. Seems anyone can commit fraud against a company and it's not really a crime. The only thing you can do is sue and hope something happens because you know, if he's stealing, he doesn't have much of his own to repay for damages... a real lose, lose situation.
Any ideas? Options? Types of attorney? Types of criminal action I can pursue?What is the name of your state?
Long story short. A business acquaintance steals and uses our Fed Tax ID number, our Duns number and checking account number, to acquire credit accounts for his own benefit. He uses these accounts to build his own business, pays late or not at all because they are not in his name. Most recently, we find that he is not only using our credentials, but has now begun to use our company name! He has had goods and services delivered to his home with accounts he created in our name! He has affected our credit so badly that our creditors now believe we are located at HIS address! Not to mention that he has left a wake of debt behind, again IN OUR NAME! He has destroyed in 2 years, what it took my husband and I to build in 15 years!
We have faught with creditors, lawyers and collection agencies over the debt that this person created. They cannot and will not do anything to relieve us unless we have a police report. The police will not take a report because they feel it's a civil matter. They refer us to the States Attorneys office, well, they won't help unless we have a... you guessed it... police report. I'm spinning my wheels here. I can sue the guy, but really, that will only cost me more money, do nothing to put him behind bars and chances are, he'll never have to pay anything since all of his assets are in his wife's name who doesn't even carry his last name!
I've just began the process to contact the FBI, but I fear that will be another dead end. His actions have caused our credit and business irreparable harm and from what I can tell, he's going to get away with it all!
Seems no one can do anything about it. Seems anyone can commit fraud against a company and it's not really a crime. The only thing you can do is sue and hope something happens because you know, if he's stealing, he doesn't have much of his own to repay for damages... a real lose, lose situation.
Any ideas? Options? Types of attorney? Types of criminal action I can pursue?What is the name of your state?