{"id":4788,"date":"2014-09-15T16:09:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/child-identity-theft-the-numbers\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T19:36:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:36:54","slug":"child-identity-theft-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/child-identity-theft-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Identity Theft  The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important things a person can do to combat id fraud is to monitor their credit report as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\">fraud prevention tool<\/a>. This simple step, which is free, can alert a user to any transactions that have taken place without their authorization.<\/p>\n<p>But how many of you have thought to check your child&#8217;s credit report? Im going to guess none of you have raised your hands. According to a report done by Richard Power at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cylab.cmu.edu\/files\/pdfs\/reports\/2011\/child-identity-theft.pdf\">Carnegie Mellons CyLab<\/a>, identity thieves are targeting children due to the unique value of unused Social Security numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Now lets get into the numbers:<\/p>\n<p>Cases involving identities of minors 5 and under: 303 Cases involving identities of minors from 6 to 10: 826 Cases involving identities of minors from 11 to 14: 1,212 Cases involving identities of minors from 15 to 18: 1,849 Cases involving suspect name associated with a child&#8217;s Social Security number: 5,497 Cases in which child&#8217;s Social Security number appeared in loan and credit account records: 6,948 Cases in which a child&#8217;s Social Security number appeared in utility service records: 1,767 Cases in which a child&#8217;s Social Security number appeared in records related to property assessments, deeds, mortgages and foreclosures: 537 Cases in which a child&#8217;s Social Security number appeared in drivers license records: 415 Cases in which a child&#8217;s Social Security number appeared in vehicle registration records: 235<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important things a person can do to combat id fraud is to monitor their credit report as a fraud prevention tool. This simple step, which is free, can alert a user to any transactions that have taken place without their authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-theft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}