Identity theft doesn’t always announce itself. Most people find out weeks or months after the fact when a debt collector calls about an account they never opened, or they try to file taxes and the IRS says someone already beat them to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By then, the damage is done. The faster you check, the faster you can stop it. If you want to start by seeing what personal information about you is publicly available online, the same information a thief could use, Social Catfish’s reverse search tools<\/a> let you run a search on yourself by name, email, phone number, or image to see what’s out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s how to check every major area where identity theft shows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n