I was the victim of an identity theft by my ex-wife. She was charged with the crime and convicted and received probation. When we separated she stayed at the residence. She became involved with another person and they applied for credit everywhere using my identity and she wrote thousands of dollars in bad checks against our closed joint account. She started out making an attempt to actually pay the bills because she did not want to get caught. She told the judge that she had intended on maintaining the fraudulent accounts so she could have the credit, but she was afraid getting caught would affect our custody battle for my child. She was charged with the crime and made a plea deal admitting to stealing my identity, writing thousands in bad checks and fraud. I have gone back and forth with primarily Experian about this for years even providing them with proof that the identity theft occurred. I am the victim and I 'm still dealing with this, she is the criminal and got 18 months of probation. When Experian investigated it they said the accounts were set up from an address on my report ( I left the residence to her ) and also noted that some payments were made at first on the accounts which she admitted doing to the judge because she did n't want to get caught and was afraid she 'd lose custody of our child if she got caught. All of this is on record with the Superior Court of XXXX XXXX Georgia and the police department. Long ago I actually sent Experian a letter from the prosecutors office supporting the identity theft and still Experian did nothing to remove these identity theft accounts