Axton Betz-Hamilton received an angry phone call from her father two weeks after her mother, Pam, died. He had unearthed a credit card statement in her name that had run over its limit from a box of her mothers paperwork. She reasoned that the statement must be from one of the credit cards taken out by her identity thief, who had been using her Social Security number (SSN) since she was only 11. More than 1 million US children had their identities stolen in 2017, according to Javelin Strategy & Research.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/awareness/2020/03/child-identity-theft-part-1-on-familiar-fraud/