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October 14, 2019

Has your baby's identity already been stolen?

By BEV O’SHEA
NerdWallet

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Parents may discover their newborn’s tarnished Social Security number when they try to use it to file taxes, apply for benefits or attempt to freeze their credit.

Imagine discovering that your newborn's brand new Social Security number has already been used to construct what Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center, calls a “Frankenstein monster of identity.”


 
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