Report: Child ID theft on the rise

[ronjor]

Child ID theft, among the more tragic and vexing 21st Century crimes, is much more common than previously thought, suggests a report being published Friday by a Carnegie Mellon University fellow.

Data examined by Richard Power, a distinguished fellow at the school’s CyLab research center, offers hints that identity thieves are specially targeting children when picking victims.

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2011/04/rep...-the-rise.html

[J_L]

They probably target children, because the victims are much less likely to know about ID theft.

[xxJackxx]

This problem is created entirely by the credit bureaus. They profit from maintaining records with inaccurate information. Of course you can pay extra so that you can monitor your own information yourself. If any other industry on earth reported false and inaccurate information on the average citizen they would be sued out of existence.