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In addition to credit freeze, contact IRS and let them know that your social security number has been stolen. They will give you a pin that you will need to use when you file your taxes.

It happened to me, someone filed taxes with my name. Took almost a year before IRS fixed this and then they locked my account. So now every year, I need to use the pin.

Also file police report/FBI report, I think you can do all this online. When my identity was stolen they told me to do this although they knew no action will be taken. The reason is if someone use your identity to commit a serious crime, you will have an official police report to proof.

In end, it really sucks. You will need to keep paying for credit/identity monitoring services forever and occasionally take actions against events like some random credit card account opening up in some random state.