Thieves are increasingly stealing children’s Social Security numbers and using them to create phony identities under which they take out loans or credit cards.
In 2017 the Federal Trade Commission received 14,000 complaints of identity theft targeting people age 19 and younger.
The fraud can go unnoticed for years unless parents check their children’s credit histories.
Visit the special FTC webpage, IdentityTheft. gov for more information.
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