This is the topic of the newsletter from Kim Komando.
Did you know that using children’s information is not necessarily new?
According to the article, your child should not have a credit report until they turn 18 and start applying for things they want to do in life. Kim says that if your child has a credit report, that’s trouble. This is because the perp can rack up a bunch of bills and the like, your child is just doing child things and they do not have any idea any of this is going on.
By the time they go to do stuff, they then have to figure out what happened, convince the crediters they had nothing to do with whatever the problem is, and all of the rest with comingto terms of being owned.
3 steps to protect your kids from identity theft is the article.