Someone registered on Credit Karma using my information, do I have any legal recourse?

Identity theft is a crime. I would take the gathered information to the police.

The FBI might even care.

People pretend to be me all the time on the internet. One person from here made a fake Twitter account for me. Just last week a old user from here faked being me in a facebook chatroom.

Not much you can really do. And the cops will pretend to care but laugh once you are out of the room unless they actually did financial damage to you.

Facebook has chatrooms?

But yeah, they aren’t going to care unless you actually lost money or something.

Facebook and Twitter don’t have your social security number associated with fake accounts, so I don’t find it comparable :) I find it to be a little scary. This is something I am just now dealing with, with credit karma also. Though I don’t think someone is trying to steal my crappy identity, I do think they are trying to keep tabs on my credit for a reason. I do not know for certain who made the account, however I have my suspicions. The email address is with yahoo, and I have never owned it. I am still waiting to hear back, the second time, from credit karma, telling me they have in fact suspended the account. I also wrote yahoo to inform them that someone created the email address, using my info, for a credit karma account. I would think, at the least, they will get rid of the fake accounts. I know this post was over a year ago but I am Curious as to what the outcome here was.