• Report the crime on-line  – This report is for financial records or documentation of the incident and generally, no follow-up investigation will be conducted.  It is for your records, for getting reimbursed, and to satisfy your bank’s or insurance company’s requirements.
• If you have suspect information or evidence, call 303-660-7500 and a deputy will respond to take a report. Use this method if you have information that can be followed-up on by a local law enforcement agency.  

Other things to do:

• Limit the impact: Notify banks, businesses and credit bureaus of the theft.
  • The three main credit bureaus are:
    • www.experian.com
    • www.transunion.com
    • www.equifax.com

• Change passwords, PINs and secret questions and “flag” your account at the credit bureaus.
• Report the identity theft to the FTC at www.Identitytheft.gov and create a recovery plan.

Criminals try to get your personal identifying information by:

• Looking through your trash and stealing your mail.
• Copying or “skimming” your credit card numbers.
• Hacking into the financial records of a business or bank or credit card company.
• Stealing your wallet, purse, or laptop, or breaking into your home or your car.
• Tricking you into giving the information to them.
• Buying the information from other criminals, or from someone at your workplace.
• Through “data breaches” at a business.
• Sometimes family members or people you trust will abuse that trust to get it.

What the criminals do with your information:

• Criminals create fake identities through the use of any personally identifying information they can obtain and use it to their benefit.