{"id":7597,"date":"2007-05-11T13:01:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/05\/11\/a-mother-of-an-identity-theft-prob"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:48","slug":"a-mother-of-an-identity-theft-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2007\/05\/11\/a-mother-of-an-identity-theft-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"a mother of an Identity Theft problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

update<\/em> (3 PM):\u00a0Forty poems from our Honored Guest Poets can be found in the brand new f\/k\/a’s Mother’s Day Haiku Collection<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"AvoidIDTheft\"\u00a0It seems that mothers don’t just shape our identity, these days, they steal it, too.\u00a0 My hometown newspaper has a story today about a mother who stole her 2-year-old’s identity in order to\u00a0set up\u00a0utility and phone accounts, and then skipped out, ruining the child’s credit rating.\u00a0 (The <\/em>[Schenectady, NY] Daily Gazette<\/em><\/a>, “Mom accused of toddler ID theft,” May 11, 2007, p. B1, $ub.)\u00a0 At the time of the arrest, the child had already been taken from the mother, Hope C. Maxwell (27 years old), by our county Child Protective Services, for unrelated reasons.\u00a0 It never occurred to me that\u00a0parental ID theft\u00a0would be a widespread problem.\u00a0 Apparently, it is.\u00a0 For example, see:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Identity Thieves’ Newest Target Children<\/a>: Targeted Kids Often Learn of Destroyed Credit Years Later,” ABC World News<\/em>, Feb. 7, 2006, where you will learn of a woman whose mother ran up $150,000 in debt on a credit care taken out in the child’s name, when\u00a0the girl\u00a0was 8 years old.\u00a0 The daughter only found out when she tried to buy a car at the age of 20.<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Child Identity Theft<\/a>,”\u00a0\u00a0Inside Edition<\/em>, May 10, 2005, where you’ll meet Shiloh Puckett of Rockwall, Texas.\u00a0 Shiloh is ten, but is already\u00a0listed on credit reports as being $14,000, thanks to her Mother, who served six months in prison on forgery and fraud charges after running up the bad debt on at least 17 credit cards. Note: “Puckett insists she only used her daughter\u2019s credit to pay for necessities.”<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Young Entrepeneurs of America<\/em>: The same Inside Edition<\/em> episode<\/a> focused on Bryce Dalton, whose father got Bryce a business license for a contracting company called \u201cDalton & Sons\u201d,\u00a0when he was only three.\u00a0 Of course, daddy ran up unpaid debts related to the business, and to a few\u00a0credit cards in Bryce’s name.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"#1Mom\"\u00a0If you want to be ID-theft savvy, and your mama didn’t teach you, go to the Federal Trade Commission’s Identity Theft Website<\/a>\u00a0, which has lots of information on how to DETER identity thieves by safeguarding your information; DETECT suspicious activity by routinely monitoring your financial accounts and billing statements; and DEFEND against ID theft as soon as you suspect a problem.\u00a0 You might want to take the OnGuard Online ID Theft Quiz<\/a> (maybe with your kids).\u00a0 Also, shlep<\/em> has links<\/a>\u00a0to materials on identify theft and security fraud information.\u00a0 Meanwhile, kids, be careful who gets to see your Social Security Number. \u00a0
    \n\u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n
    Mother’s Day<\/div>\n
    the florist adds kisses<\/div>\n
    to my card<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
    <\/div>\n
    ………. by Hilary Tann<\/a>\u00a0– Upstate Dim Sum<\/em><\/a> (2005\/II)<\/div>\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\n

    mother’s day\u00a0\u00a0
    \na nurse unties
    \nthe restraints<\/p>\n

    …………………………… by roberta beary<\/a> – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> VII:2
    \nand     Big Sky: Red Moon Anthology 2006<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    \npity the daughters of beautiful mothers the years spent waiting to
    \ngrow into a beauty that never comes the sympathetic looks finally
    \nunderstood at the moment when childhood ends<\/p>\n

    mother’s visit
    \nside by side we outline
    \nour lips<\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    – haibun [prose with poem] by roberta beary<\/a>, Modern Haiku<\/em> Vol. 37:1 (Spring 2006)\u00a0–<\/p>\n

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    that spanking she gave\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\"MomTwins50\u00a0 Mama G<\/font><\/a>. <\/font><\/font>
    \nthe wrong twin \u2014
    \nall the other days<\/p>\n

    …………….. by dagosan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/font><\/font>\u00a0<\/font><\/font>Believe me, there is no connection between Mama G. and such financial hanky-panky.\u00a0\u00a0But, with Mother’s Day only\u00a0two days away, I\u00a0want to send her my love and to\u00a0remind you that we posted “a few haiku for mother’s day<\/a>”\u00a0In May 2005.\u00a0In addition, later today, I will put up a\u00a0much larger\u00a0Mother’s Day Haiku Collection.\u00a0 Check back here for the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n

    Mother’s Day visit
    \n\u00a0 bringing home her smile
    \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and her frown<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    . ………………………….. by dagosan, at MagnaPoets<\/em><\/a> (May 11, 2007)<\/p>\n

    \"HaigaTulipsGS\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0orig. haiga at MagnaPoets<\/em><\/a> (May 10, 2007)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    grayskies
    \non mother’s day –
    \ngrandma’s favorite park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    poem: david giacalone
    \nphoto: arthur giacalone<\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\n

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    update (3 PM):\u00a0Forty poems from our Honored Guest Poets can be found in the brand new f\/k\/a’s Mother’s Day Haiku Collection. \u00a0 \u00a0It seems that mothers don’t just shape our identity, these days, they steal it, too.\u00a0 My hometown newspaper has a story today about a mother who stole her 2-year-old’s identity in order to\u00a0set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3298,555,3513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiga-or-haibun","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-lawyer-news-or-ethics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1Yx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12543,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/12543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}