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Posts Tagged social security numbers
Identity Theft Security and Your Social Security Card
Identity theft is when an individual obtains another person’s personal data and uses this information to commit fraud for monetary gain. In almost every country in the world now, criminals have been known to withdraw funds from other people’s bank accounts and even incur debts in their victim’s names.
Criminals can not only steal a person’s money, but they can ruin their reputation as well by purchasing illegal items and even filing for bankruptcy. Identity theft security in the United States had gotten out of hand because it is a relatively new crime, but now there are laws and penalties being placed on the books to harshly punish the wrong doers.
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Identity Theft and Children
Here in the U.S, shortly after birth, your child is assigned a social security number. That number is then used by the parents for taxes, health information for school records…etc. Identity thieves may gain access to these social security numbers by working at doctors offices, schools and insurance companies. Credit bureaus, for the most part, do not have the resources to check the viability and age that is attached to the Social security number so the information that gets attached to that number such as age and residence virtually goes unnoticed.
Addressing Child ID Theft
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