I have a question about something that happened to me about 2 years ago….

I was unemployed and approached in a chat room about “working from home”. With being desperate for money I agreed to talk with this person. I was asked to accept packages and then once I got them, I was supposed to get an email on where to ship them to and i would get paid for my help.

Well, to make a long story short, i ended up getting 3 checks in the mail, which I didn’t know at the time were counterfeit, til after i took all three to the bank and put them into my account.

I ended up being charged with theft, the cops and the bank, said that I had made the checks myself and put them into my own account to defraud the bank of the money. I have never done anything criminal and wasn’t planning on starting then.

When I tried to give the cops the explanation on what had happened, they said I didn’t have enough proof. I had the emails from this person that i was “dealing” with. I never met this person before or talked to them on the phone, I never found out thier real name. All I had was an email address.

So, i ended up with a misdemeanor theft charge.

Here is my question, a few months ago, i got a letter in the mail from the us dept. of justice in georgia, about a man who was being charged with fraud, and my name had came up in thier case.

I want to know if there is anything that can be done with my guilty plea or possibly obtaining a new ss#. I know that it is legal to ask for a new ss# when you are a victim of fraud. I have had to deal with alot with this whole mess and i realize now that i should have been alittle smarter but i don’t know what to do now.

I get email notification from the justice dept. about the case and i am registered on thier victim’s website…

Can anything be done?