Weekly Crime Poll: Is Using a Fake Social Security Number Identity Theft?
Weekly Crime Poll: Is Using a Fake Social Security Number Identity Theft? Friday December 3, 2010 According to the U.S. Supreme Court, using a forged social security number to get credit or employment is not identity theft. The ruling was decided last year after a Mexican man got a job using his real name and a fake social security number. The Supreme Court felt that the man did not knowingly use a person’s social security number when he picked random numbers to put on his job application. In another case in October 2010, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that a man who used a fake social security number on a loan application for a car, was not guilty of identity theft. Poll: Is using a fake social security number for getting a loan or a job identity theft? 1) Yes 2) <
