When Your Family Steals Your Identity

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Being the victim of identity theft can be traumatic, especially when your own mother is the perpetrator. In this episode, personal finance Nerd Kimberly Palmer talks with Axton Betz-Hamilton, author of “The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity.” Betz-Hamilton talks about her experience being the victim of familial identity theft and shares tips on how to protect your identity — and how to recover if you are a victim. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.8	Regular smart money guest and personal finance nerd Kim Palmer is kicking off the next episode in our book club series.
0:48.3	Kim, who are you talking with this episode? I am talking with Axon, Beth's Hamilton. She is the author of The Less People Know About Us, A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity.
1:00.6	Her book is really about how much identity theft can upend your life, especially when it's
1:06.8	perpetrated by someone who's close to you.
1:09.0	And we're going to talk about her experience growing up
1:11.7	as the victim of identity theft and how people who have that experience can really recover from it.
1:18.2	All right. Well, I will let you take things from here. Thank you. Axton, welcome to smart money.
1:24.1	Thank you for having me. It's great to be here. In your book, you share how your own mother
1:31.0	stole your identity when you were a child, ultimately robbing you and your dad of hundreds of thousands
1:36.7	of dollars, ruining your credit, your sense of trust in the world, and you share how you
1:42.0	discovered this fraud really to your shock after your mom died
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