Privacy in the digital age

The original post: /r/privacy by /u/throwRAanxious93 on 2024-11-13 20:04:00.

Back in August someone successfully opened up a chase credit card under my name. Thankfully I caught it early and got it shut down and froze my credit.

However, I just received mail from FIVE different banks saying I tried to apply for credit cards but can't yet until I unfreeze my credit. I didn't try to open these so clearly someone is still trying to use my info.

I checked and my credit is still frozen, l've contacted each bank saying it wasn't me. What else can I do? How the hell do I fully stop them from using my info? Can they use my info to unfreeze my credit to get access to open a credit card since they know my social security number? Do I really have to get a whole new social number to stop this?