Spam Calls Using Dead Relatives

i knew someone who lost a young child.........the following year when they filed their returns, the irs kicked them back saying the SSN for the child was already used. apparently you get a year or 2 to use the deceased child's ssn to claim them.........but other sickos out there beat them to it.

I’ve had recorded calls where they’ve asked about relatives, but not deceased ones. I think some data mining linked your mother-in-laws name to your wife’s name. Even though she’s been gone for ten years her name is still out there on the net. My grandfather has been gone nearly twenty years and he is still listed on some online phone directories.

AI will drown us in spam before the killerbots ever get off the ground.

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i knew someone who lost a young child.........the following year when they filed their returns, the irs kicked them back saying the SSN for the child was already used

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using a dead child's SSN is a way to get fake ID

My dad and another, unrelated man, were born a week apart in Louisiana and given very similar names. They were issued the same SSN and nobody ever noticed until they turned 65 and qualified for Social Security. It was a real shitshow getting it straightened out.

Wouldn't there have been issues with stuff like credit and taxes long before that?

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Anyone else experience this?

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my Dad's been gone for 14 years, my Mom will get a call about once a year from someone that tells her they have a message from him, she never lets the conversation last very long, I told her the next time at least ask what the message is

Sounds like someone that bought up old debt and is trying to collect on it.

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Sounds like someone that bought up old debt and is trying to collect on it.

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It's definitely not that. A debt collector identifies themselves and says what they're calling about. These people are overseas and shady.