“stolen SSN” Hmmm. How do you steal a number. It was a fake number. I don’t know the details.
Happens all the time and is referred to as "identity theft". They are stolen from American citizens.
Trust me, the stolen SSN phenomenon is very real. It took my then 80-year-old retired Foreign Service Officer father over a year to straighten out a mess with the IRS, resulting from the use of his SSN by some illegal bussing tables in Brooklyn. All the income that the employer reported to the IRS for that SSN was attributed to my father, who was hit with penalties and threats for “failing to report” it on his tax return. My father happened to be very well-positioned to convince the IRS that he hadn’t been bussing tables in Brooklyn (after all, during the same period, he’d been getting visits from the feds trying to convince him to go back to work part time post-9/11, due to his still having high level security clearance, which was suddenly in huge demand), but most people would have a much tougher time fighting and winning this sort of battle.
Wow, that's an awful lot of cheat beating for not knowing if a felony was committed.
A felony committed by the "poor" kid, not his parents.
“stolen SSN” Hmmm. How do you steal a number. It was a fake number. I don’t know the details.”
By “a fake number” you mean it belonged to someone else, then you are truly a moron.
Property that belongs to another is not fake it is real.
If I take your car without permission it does not become fake, it becomes STOLEN!