Children are targets of identity thieves not only because they tend to have clean credit histories, but also because
In one instance, an eight-year-old girl was a repeated victim of identity thieves, starting from when she was 12 months old, NBC's Dallas-Fort Worth news site reported Wednesday. The identity security company All-Clear ID identified three suspects using the girl's Social Security number with different names, the article said.
The company's largest case involved a child whose identity was linked to $750,000 of debt.
Such crimes are hard to detect because the credit reports parents can buy typically do not show debt linked to a separate name for the same Social Security number, Jamie May, a chief investigator with All-Clear ID, told NBC.
Identity theft is particularly prevalent in Texas because of its large population of illegal immigrants that want to use Social Security numbers, the article said.
