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Old Aug 5, 2016 | 2:54 am
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Originally Posted by jwgmaldives
So tl;dr, identity stolen, what to do from here? I guess I will file a police report and place a 7 year alert on my system...but that's going to make applying for credit such a pain in the ......no more instant approvals. Any suggestions?
Nothing really. You did what you can.

At the minimum, you should be lucky that you sustained no damage as the result of the identity theft. SSA does not change your SSN solely based on the fact that you are a identity theft victim.
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