Children being victimized by identity thieves!

[thewayne]

A guy goes to open a checking account and finds that his credit history had been stolen and trashed years earlier. You now have to have a social security number for children older than 1 if you want to use them as a tax deduction, but credit bureaus don't have any form of reality check. If someone gets ahold of that number and starts using it, they may have a free run for years.

http://www.bankrate.com/nltrack/news/debt/20070103_child_identity_theft_a1.asp

Comments

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

Guess we should be occasionally running credit checks on our children to make sure they haven't been hijacked. Gah.