<prompt> Human: I know this is not strictly personal finance, but I do know the rpersonalfinance community will surely know what to do in this situation.I suspect someone has been stealing my my familys mail from our mailbox. A few months ago, someone filed a tax return under my father and mothers social security numbers. As I understand it, my father has straightened this out with the IRS. Later, someone charged 3000 on a credit card in my fathers name. The bank did not hold him liable for these charges because they were fraudulent. I also was supposed to get a rebate gift card from Continental tires for buying car tires from them. It never came in the mail so I called them and they said that the card had already been activated and already used. There was a single transaction in a Home Depot that Ive never been to. Perhaps Im wrong, but I cant see anyway someone would get a hold of my gift card and my fathers credit card number without physically going thru our mail. Today, I noticed that our mailbox was wide open, but no one in the family had retrieved the mail. There were a few letters inside but also a clustering of ants around some object which I havent checked thoroughly, but it makes me think someone opened the mailbox and may have gone through our mail today and put in some food scraps. Someone has vandalized our mailbox in the past but it was years ago, we also got one of our trees toilet paperd once. On one occasion, my mother noticed several pieces of jewelry missing. I cant know for sure whether someone came into the house or not and took it. Nothing else was noticed missing. Not related to the mail situation, but to identity theft in general, I got a letter from the federal government stating that they had had some data breach and my records clearance stuff - which basically all my personal info were among those that were compromised. They offered no solution except to pay for credit monitoring for which I could enroll. Also at some point, both of parents have separately lost their drivers licenses on different occasions and had to get new ones.I dont know what to do. I am so mad right now. I am thinking I need a new mailbox that only has a slot for putting mail in and can be locked with a key. And maybe a security camera for our house.  <response>: I suggest you and anyone else who receives mail at the same address put a check your credit reports and place a flag on your credit.Also, you may want to invest in a security camera. 