Parent's abusing their children's credit

[thewayne]

Man, I'd heard of identity thieves stealing kid's SSNs for credit cards and such, I guess I shouldn't be surprised when parents do it.

"It was her first credit card application, or so she thought, prompted by an offer on her Ohio college campus for a free T-shirt.

But a rejection letter uncovered troubling news someone had already opened four credit cards in her name and racked up $50,000 in debt.

That someone, it turns out, was her father."

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/11/56570

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[ateji.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'd heard of this. Some people just don't care whose lives they screw up when they need money.

(I thought it was bad, when I was a teenager and my parents had gotten divorced, that they both claimed the other had taken all the money out of savings they'd put in for me at a credit union when I was younger.)