Child Identity Theft
Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at
1:15 am
ExpertRealEstateTips asked:
Has your child’s identity been stolen? While identity theft is often committed by strangers, sometimes parents and other relatives steal the financial identities of children to get access to more credit.
Tagged with: Parents • Relatives • Stolen Identity
Filed under: Identity Theft
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Well informed citizens may be able to make progress in these areas.
Thanks for what you do.
These are great questions. I’m still wondering why Medicare still requires a senior’s SSN be on their Medicare card? Medical SSN abuse – growing as fast as Child SSN abuse. – Ilyce
Children becoming victims of ID Theft?
So- a business processing a credit/loan application will accept a bogus SSN and not do a crosscheck to reveal it belongs to a child? – Gross Negligence – Brought to you via a cooperative effort of government and private enterprise.
Why ask a 42 year old adult for a SSN- if the business will accept the SSN of a 7 year old?
When we do on-line banking we don’t pay extra don’t pay extra for a password or PIN code which we can change daily- basic consumer safeguards that have been around for years.
The federal government could clean up ID theft overnight- if they wanted to.
There is very little you can do other than police your own SSN carefully (frequently). You need to be especially careful that you lock up your child’s SSN card, don’t throw away anything with his or her SSN on it, and take precautions not to leave personal finance documents (tax returns, credit card bills lying around.)
Ilyce
Much talk about looking after our SSN.
No talk about what prevents the use of a bogus SSN-
An honor system- that is all.
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