🪪 Identity Theft Protection Guide

👤 Your Account (optional — unlocks saving & history)

The tool below works fully as a guest, no account needed. Create a free local account to save, edit and export your own records.

🛡️ The Prevention Plan (do these before you need them)

• Guard the master keys. Your email account and phone number reset everything else. Unique passwords in a manager + app-based 2FA on both, always.
• Freeze what you can. Where offered (e.g. US credit bureaus), a credit freeze blocks new accounts in your name and costs nothing. Elsewhere, enable bank transaction alerts and card controls in your banking app.
• Starve the data brokers. Less public data = fewer convincing scams. Lock down social profiles, never post ID documents, dates of birth or travel plans publicly.
• Shred and encrypt. Bank statements, old cards and tax papers are identity gold. Shred paper; encrypt digital copies; never email scans of IDs to strangers.
• Watch for smoke. Turn on login alerts for email, banking and social accounts. Review statements monthly — small "test" charges are how stolen cards are validated.
• Prepare your evidence folder. Keep copies of your ID, and a list of account support numbers, somewhere safe offline. On the worst day, you'll be glad they exist.

🚨 If It Already Happened — First 24 Hours

• 1. Call the bank/card issuer. Freeze cards, dispute fraudulent transactions in writing, and get case numbers for everything.
• 2. Secure email + phone first. From a clean device: change the email password, enable 2FA, review recovery addresses and logged-in sessions. If your SIM was swapped, call the carrier immediately.
• 3. Report officially. File a report with the police / cybercrime authority in your country (in the US, IdentityTheft.gov generates a recovery plan; in Pakistan, the FIA Cybercrime wing). Reports are often required for disputes.
• 4. Freeze and flag. Place credit freezes/fraud alerts where available, and tell other banks you use what happened.
• 5. Rotate outward. Change passwords starting with anything financial, then shopping, then social — unique password + 2FA each time.
• 6. Document everything. Dates, names, case numbers, screenshots. Identity theft recovery is a paperwork marathon; notes win it.

✅ My Protection Task List

Turn the plan into tracked tasks. Log in above, tap + Add on suggested tasks or write your own, then move them To do → Doing → Done and keep notes (case numbers, dates, support names) on each. Your list is private to your account on this device; progress counts only your tasks.

Suggested tasks