Replacing A Lost Green Card

[Kyten]

Ok well, here's the story. My girlfriend is a permanent resident and she has misplaced her green card after moving. She was applying online on uscis.gov and almost immediately after she received a phone call from a lady saying she was with immigrations and she was going to help her through this process. My girlfriend gave her information such as social security, credit card info and the like. It seemed pretty legit, but when I got home I checked her email and it said an application was confirmed from us-immigration.com which I looked up and found to be a scam. Now I believe the woman to work for the us-immigration.com and has scammed my girlfriend. So I need to figure out the best course of action to take from now. I would assume to go to the bank and have them chargeback the money and file a police report? I could use any answers at this point, thanks.

[Lexa]

Call the cops? Definitely shut down the credit card(s). There's also some solutions for a stolen SSN here: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10064.html#a0=4

USCIS never calls to help with something that trivial. To replace a green card I believe you just file form I-90 and pay the fee.

[Nesssie]

File a police report, change SS #, get replacement credit cards, alert checking/savings bank, put a fraud alert on your credit reports (this is important and easy to do ...you don't want others to open credit on your name or SS) and apply for the new green card at www.uscis.gov

[Nesssie]

Also links:

Transunion fraud alert: http://www.transunion.com/personal-c...ud-alerts.page

Experian fraud alert: https://www.experian.com/fraud/center_rd.html

Equifax fraud alert: https://www.alerts.equifax.com/AutoF...fraudAlert.jsp