California woman's identity taken by suspected illegal immigrants (81 people in 17 states)

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/16/06 | Peter Prengaman - ap

[Minn]

She should be getting some awesome Social Security checks based on all her reported income.

[pillut48]

Let me get this straight--since "undocumented migrants"
are eligible to collect SS benefits, does this mean this woman can collect all the benefits that have come about because
they have been abusing *her* SSN??

Dang IRS will probable make HER pay taxes on the income instead of punished the real lawbreakers!!! >:-(

[pillut48]

punished=punishing

[gubamyster]

ping

[calex59]

My daughter's SS number was stolen by illegals. She lives in CA and the illegal was working in Utah. The IRS tried to make her pay taxes on the money earned in Utah, finally relenting after it was pointed out 30 or 40 times that she couldn't possibly have worked both jobs at the same time. The feds don't care as long as they get their money. We need to change the house and senate, big time. We need to also dump the IRS.

[Graybeard58]

information gleaned from criminal investigations, tax documents and other sources suggested that most of the users were probably illegal immigrants.

Ya think?

[VOA]

"Comprehensive Immigration Package"...
that's Washingtonese for Amnesty for Identity Theft committed by Illegals.

[ßuddaßudd]

My thoughts too! Since she is from an affluent suburb, its ok for her to be a victim of this victimless crime... Why dont they target Katrina victims??

[CounterCounterCulture]

bookmarking

[txdoda]

Schmierer never determined how her number became so widely used. Sellers of fake documents often make up numbers and print them on many documents.

I just saw something the other day about a woman who has gone public re: just how easy it is to obtain personal records/info of citizens thru info ONLINE from banks/morgage companies etc.

She had even obtained Jeb Bush's SS# (private info), interestingly, after she made this news public, Jeb's SS# ended up blocked out from this site while other Floridians SS#'s (private info) REMAINED for all to see.

Locally we had a (retired) woman get her benefits cut, due to her job in NJ @ a pizza joint.....seems like the IRS was also demanding back taxes.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Well no, because the Senate wants to give that money to the illegals who stole her identity.

[Mamzelle]

Shouldn't the employers face some civil liability?

[txdoda]

Senate wants to give that money to the illegals who stole her identity.

Maybe these *good* Senators should *lend* out their own SS#'s.

[Joann37]

Just incredible! Lou Dobbs had this story on a few weeks ago. Here's the transcript if anyone is interested (about half way down the page):


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/08/ldt.01.html

[Yogafist]

A coworker of mine was in the same situation. I used to joke that I hoped mine was being used so I could get the extra money when I retire until he told me how difficult it is for him at tax time each year. The way he explained it, filing his tax return each year is a major headache.

[Utahrd]

Watch out!

Our Open Borders and Amnesty Loving Republican In Name Only Chris Cannon will have your daughter arrested for violating the civil rights of one of President Bush's Good Hearted People.

[roverman2K6]

Bingo! Thats why the government does nothing. All the illegals using fake numbers is free money for SSN. They will never claim it.

[GOP Poet]

LOL . . . just a tad off the mark and map aye? Boy affluence has sure gone down in price and amenities I guess. Some people just see Cal. as one big city I swear.