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Hey umm I hate to break it to you but Restless Leg Syndrom is real. My wife has it and it hurts her so bad she cries at night . She has to take Requip to get any semblance of a good nights sleep. So um yeah but taking somones identity is bogus.
Hey umm I hate to break it to you but Restless Leg Syndrom is real. My wife has it and it hurts her so bad she cries at night . She has to take Requip to get any semblance of a good nights sleep. So um yeah but taking somones identity is bogus.
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Perhaps they should issue a ssn immediately upon birth, and report to the credit bureau, that way the credit bureau will always know how old you are. Or make it a number where the dob is an included part of the number. I'd of course rather see no credit bureaus at all, but that will never happen.
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If we weren't so worried about chasing terrorists and drug-dealers, we might actually devote federal agents to dealing with this issue. How simple would it be to set up a system that automatically tracked ssn inquiries, and when the same number came in from two extremely different locations, an alarm would sound? It's not like your social security number is all that secure nowadays anyway, and it's much easier to keep track of it's out in the open.
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better still, give ID Theft the same penalty as horse stealing had in the Old West.
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Does anyone know if the LifeLock service is worth it? I mean, what they do you could theoretically do on your own. But, they also insure you for up to a million.
I'm just wondering if anyone took the plunge.
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The only comfort about this is that 99.9% of the children have their credit score wiped. Recently, where I'm at, a lady was using her child's SSC to buy all kinds of stuff, then claimed, over and over, that someone was using her child's identity so it would get wiped. Took five times before anyone noticed something fishy was going on.
To whoever thinks this is a victim less crime:
1. The parents go through red tape hell to wipe their child's credit back to default.
2. The businesses that got ripped are just screwed.
3. Getting caught doing this is far worst than if you were to do it to a adult. I'm sure there are at least three different felonies involved. I'm not sure though.