[privacy] The Secret List of ID Theft Victims

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via MSNBC.

[snip]

Linda Trevino, who lives in a Chicago suburb, applied for a job in 2004 at
a local Target department store, and was denied. The reason? She already
worked there — or rather, her Social Security number already worked
there.

Follow-up investigation revealed the same Social Security number had been
used to obtain work at 37 other employers, mostly by illegal immigrants
trying to satisfy government requirements to get a job.

Trevino is hardly alone. MSNBC.com research and government reports suggest
hundreds of thousands of American citizens are in the same spot —
unknowingly lending their identity to illegal immigrants so they can work.
And while several government agencies and private corporations sometimes
know whose Social Security numbers are being ripped off, they don't notify
the victims — at least not until they come after them for back taxes or
unpaid loans owed by the imposter.

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More:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16170880/

- - ferg

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