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Stealing Your Child's Credit
 A new level of despicable ingenuity.The crime began with a phone call: Jason's ex-wife, dialing in to check on the couple's 5-year-old son, who was home with his father when the phone rang. Oddly, the boy's name flashed across the caller ID window, but Jason thought nothing of it. Mistake. Today, three years later, the Las Vegas father recognizes this call as his first taste of something truly dismal: His ex-wife, who had filed for bankruptcy, used their child's name and social security number to buy a cell phone. Then she stopped paying the bill. Jason found out when his son turned 6 and received a credit agency collection notice for $344. As identity theft goes, the scam was particularly nefarious - abusing the name of your own child. Unfortunately, children are increasingly becoming victims of this kind of identity theft. Posted by: .com 2006-12-12 |
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