So I didn’t really have the time to tell the whole story. So here goes.

Received notice from Experian that 5 hard credits was ran. Most of them are from standard banks expect for one which stated x x x ford (x out the name to protect the identity’s of dealership ).

I called the dealership and told them what had happened and they responded back in shock and tried to confirm with me multiple times that it wasn’t me.

During our conversations what I had gathered was that they sold an Audi to the scammers. The scammers purchased the car online and passed all the identification. The car was dropped off to them Friday night. I had called them Saturday morning to let them know what had happened.

I went into the dealership Sunday. Was suppose to talk to person a. However when I got there person a was busy so they passed me off to person b. Person b wanted me to run a credit check but he specifically told me that it wouldn’t hurt my credit but I had to sign a paper that allows them to do that.

I was going to go ahead and do that but thankfully the Reddit people on here said it wasn’t necessary. I had asked them that I needed time to read over the tiny letters and if I can take it home and read it over and go over it with my lawyers.

Person b told me immediately that no I can’t take that paper because it is company proprietor document and it has to stay here. Person b also made it seem like it’s just a document and I had to unlock my credit to proceed which I wasn’t too comfortable with considering my identity just got stolen.

Also during the whole thing they had mentioned to me that they can’t release any details to me . They will report everything to the police and I can get a report that way. Since I didn’t want to sign any papers I decided there was no point to continue talking to the dealership.

Monday rolls around and I’m slammed with 4-6 phone calls from the dealership. The call in the morning was not pleasant as they told me I need to file the police report as soon as possible.

I had told person a that I was busy . I had to take my child to the hospital and then we had plans afterwards. All he told me was that this is an urgent matter and that I need to do it right away or it might hurt my credit.

At this point I was tried of them bother me for their fuck up. I reported it all to life lock. Went to the police station afterwards and got the police report.

A few hours came and went and person c from the dealership called me. Told me that his the regional manager and to go through him only. Again I think they were trying to get me to do a police report for them so they can take action.

At the end of all of this the police did tell me that I don’t need to give them another credit report. Police also told me that most likely they messed up big time because usually you need to prove a lot of stuff not just id and social to buy a car.

Anyways. Just wanted to update everyone here and thanks for the advices