Identity theft The crime that keeps on taking
More than four years have gone by since Navy Commander Franklin D. Mellott learned that he was a victim of identity theft, but to this day, he still finds himself under collection for debts he never incurred.
Mellott spent the better part of a six week leave working to repair the damage done in his name after learning that his identity was not only stolen, but that the culprit was a member of his own family.
‘I could be any one of you,’ Mellott said to the 100 plus in the station theater during his morning Identity Theft briefing May 18. ‘I was about one week into a six week leave when I opened a pleasantly worded letter that my tax return of almost $5,000 was seized to pay back child support.’
Mellott learned that he apparently was delinquent on about $75,000 in back child support to an ex-wife he was never married to.
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