Hello, I have a tenant living in my property and think she has been taking my mail. I finally had the post office forward any mail sent to that address to my home address and discovered that she opened a magazine in my name with an overdue bill. Also see that I got a fine in the mail from the code enforcement for high grass and see that they sent me warning letters that I never received while my mail was going to my property the tenant lives in. Is this worth prosecuting her and how would I go about it?

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Originally Posted by Timber01

Hello, I have a tenant living in my property and think she has been taking my mail. I finally had the post office forward any mail sent to that address to my home address and discovered that she opened a magazine in my name with an overdue bill. Also see that I got a fine in the mail from the code enforcement for high grass and see that they sent me warning letters that I never received while my mail was going to my property the tenant lives in. Is this worth prosecuting her and how would I go about it?

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#1. Report this to the postmaster... this is a federal crime.

#2. Report this to the State Police... make sure they have the details.

#3. Report this to the three major credit reporting agency's... ask to have a fraud alert reported. Makes it harder to do anything but it can stop her doing more until the authorities can act.

Do not wait... Tomorrow is Sunday and the post office is closed... but the State Police never close.

Don't tip her off you know... it will be easier for the police to act if they know where she is.

And eviction for illegal activities will get you a new renter

Of course the issue, why were you getting mail at a renters house, not your own home

I've gone to the local police of where I live not where I own the property to file a police report for my tenant trying to open 7 credit cards in my name. They just wrote the report. Getting the credit card companies to cooperate have been very difficult since no card was actually opened. I sent letters to the credit card companies requesting copies of the applications to prosecute however some don't have a record of it while another one confirmed that in fact the address where the tenant lives was used on the application along with a copy of the deed to my house was sent in and she failed a security test over the phone. But after recently talking to the credit card company they no longer have that information in their system as they said it gets deleted after 60 days. Another one said to give it another 2 weeks to hear back and a 3rd one said they need the police to obtain a copy of the information used. Now after having the post office forward any mail that gets sent to me at the rental property address, I learned about other mail I have not received that she has taken and the magazine that got opened in my name which I was billed for. Do I need a lawyer to help prove this? Should I go to the local police where I live which I filed the police report for the credit card idenity theft and the state police for the more recent idenity theft and postal service theft, or should I go file a new report to where the crime actually occurred?

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Originally Posted by smoothy

#1. Report this to the postmaster....this is a federal crime.

#2. Report this to the State Police...make sure they have the details.

#3. Report this to the three major credit reporting agency's...ask to have a fraud alert reported. Makes it harder to do anything but it can stop her doing more until the authorities can act.

Do not wait....Tomorrow is Sunday and the post office is closed...but the State Police never close.

Don't tip her off you know...it will be easier for the police to act if they know where she is.

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You need o go to the police where you own the house and this person is located. Not sure how they got your social security number, but you need to lock your credit reports

I left a folder there with my personal information in it thinking they were my friends and I could trust them not to steal it as I purchased the home recently. I filled out a idenity theft complaint on the united states postal inspections website Friday along with informing the local post office of where I own the property. Should I still file a police report in the mean time before I hear back from the post office investigation? Should I physically go to the post office in person as well?

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Originally Posted by Fr_Chuck

You need o go to the police where you own the house and this person is located. Not sure how they got your social security number, but you need to lock your credit reports

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Originally Posted by Timber01

I left a folder there with my personal information in it thinking they were my friends and I could trust them not to steal it as I purchased the home recently. I filled out a idenity theft complaint on the united states postal inspections website Friday along with informing the local post office of where I own the property. Should I still file a police report in the mean time before I hear back from the post office investigation? Should I physically go to the post office in person as well?

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Yes, most definitely file this with the State police... because of the severity of this and being that it's a Federal level crime. I would not go to the local town or city police... or even the County police (but there is nothing wrong with going to them), but go to the State Police. I would do it in person... and take what evidence you have of this so they can properly include it in their report. Let them know its been reported to tehPosal Inspector too.

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Originally Posted by Timber01

... discovered that she opened a magazine in my name with an overdue bill. Also see that I got a fine in the mail from the code enforcement for high grass and see that they sent me warning letters that I never received while my mail was going to my property the tenant lives in. ...

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I don't see that you have any proof that she opened mail addressed to you (at her present address). All you have is, apparently, the fact that you didn't receive certain mail.

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Originally Posted by Timber01

... Now after having the post office forward any mail that gets sent to me at the rental property address, I learned about other mail I have not received that she has taken and the magazine that got opened in my name which I was billed for. ...

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Same here. Just some junk mail addressed to you at that address because you negligently failed to give the post office a change of address form in a timely manner. You have no real proof that she opened anything and, even if she did, no damages.

I had the same reaction as AK. I don't see anything that indicates illegal tampering with the mail. If you were still receiving mail at the address, they had no obligation to forward it. They could just throw it out without violating any laws. It would be illegal to open the mail, but I don't see proof of that.

However, identity theft is an issue.

I own a property that a tenant is living in. She got ahold of a folder with all my personal information a while back when I was purchasing the home up
There and she was already renting from the previous landlord. She tried to open 7 credit cards in my name and has been taking my mail. I took her to eviction court twice, the 2nd court appearance because she was arrested for producing a forged property purchase agreement in court which she was arrested for because she forged the letter along with the notary signature. My lawyer is now scheduling a court date for a higher court to get her out of the property. In the mean time I got a call yesterday from a bill me later service saying that I charged 2,000 dollars from a furniture business from back in February around the time she attempted to get credit cards in my name and the rental property address was used along with the tenants email address. I also did a Google search today and found out that she is trying to rent out 2 rooms in my property for 400$ per month on craigslist. This is absurd.

Report the ID theft to the police at her location, Freeze your credit report, and run a credit report from all three agencies, to find out any other places she applied for credit,

Contact them and report the fraud.

And I still have not heard the term evicting her, or did I miss where you have already kicked her out