KillerMuffin
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From CNN:
Link:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/11/25/parents.ruin.credit.ap/index.html
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- 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.
"I couldn't believe it," says the young woman, who asked not to be named for fear of humiliating her father, who was never charged criminally.
Now 25 and living in Chicago, she says she knew her father was struggling financially after his divorce from her mother and the failure of his restaurant. But she never imagined he'd fill out credit card applications sent to his home in her name. "He completely violated my trust and my privacy and my future," she says.
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Last year, the Federal Trade Commission says, 6 percent of the 86,168 people who reported identity theft to the agency said a family member was responsible. Joanna Crane, an attorney who manages the FTC's identity theft program, says those figures are "only the tip of the iceberg," since many cases go unreported or are reported directly to credit providers.
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Well if that isn't a load of horseshit.
Some people are so seriously fucked up.
Link:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/11/25/parents.ruin.credit.ap/index.html
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- 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.
"I couldn't believe it," says the young woman, who asked not to be named for fear of humiliating her father, who was never charged criminally.
Now 25 and living in Chicago, she says she knew her father was struggling financially after his divorce from her mother and the failure of his restaurant. But she never imagined he'd fill out credit card applications sent to his home in her name. "He completely violated my trust and my privacy and my future," she says.
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Last year, the Federal Trade Commission says, 6 percent of the 86,168 people who reported identity theft to the agency said a family member was responsible. Joanna Crane, an attorney who manages the FTC's identity theft program, says those figures are "only the tip of the iceberg," since many cases go unreported or are reported directly to credit providers.
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Well if that isn't a load of horseshit.
Some people are so seriously fucked up.
