It’s a practice that often victimizes innocent people, like 2-year-old Tyler Lybbert of Draper, Utah. She doesn't understand that she's got some serious credit problems.
"She's basically got two loans out on her Social Security number and, I believe, a credit card out," says Tyler’s mother, Camber Lybbert. "She's got $15,000 in debt."
This article goes on to discuss illegal immigration, but to me ID theft is a separate issue. True, illegal immigrants are going to want to obtain false identities, but there are thieves who are legal US citizens and there are thieves from other countries who don't even have to set foot in the US to steal someone's identity.
I wish there was an easy answer to this, but there isn't (or it would have already been fixed). The best countermeasure right now is vigilance I guess. :(
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