Weird. We apply for a line of credit and get a report which states we owe $600 to AT&T Wireless that was sent to a collection agency for non-payment---except we never HAD AT&T and never got any notice of any overdue bill. Naturally, being concerned about our credit worthiness, we checked with the collection company, and the Social Security number was MINE. Problem was, the person to whom this number supposedly belonged was not ME, but someone living in New Jersey whom I had never met. More interestingly, she'd been using my number since Y2K! If we hadn't applied, we'd never have known.
WARNING! Never assume you are so unpopular, unloved, unwanted that SOMEbody won't "need" you. After all, who in their right mind would WANT to be me? Obviously this is someone who is ignorant of the dangers of posing as a nerd. Still, it's a nice "boost" for MY ego, knowing I'm not totally useless. I'd really like to meet this person and thank her personally. Of course, I'm afraid the POLICE would frown on this, as using someone else's S.S. number just happens to be ILLEGAL. Then again, this person just might be an "illegal" herself. How ELSE can a poor, misunderstood, undocumented alien get a driver's license, etc. here? Being a registered Democrat, I'm sure she'd be an asset to WHATEVER party she joined---as long as it was Republican. But now that she's been exposed, she'll need a NEW Social Security number, unfortunately. Maybe you'd better ask for YOUR credit report, just in case.
