3-Year-Old N.J. Girl Gets Jury Duty Letter — and Mom Asks, 'Did Somebody Steal Her Identity?'

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Cyber security expert Ian Marlow told WCBS that children and adults are usually targeted in the same way when it comes to identity theft.“One of the very first steps that [parents] should do is contact a credit agency… and do something called locking their credit,” Marlow said, going on to urge parents to regularly run credit reports on their children, as they would do for themselves, to ensure that their information is protected.Other measures to protect kids from being a victim of identity theft include asking questions before providing someone with their social security number, protecting documents with personal information and deleting personal information before disposing of a computer or cell phone, the FTC states.Parents who discover that someone is using their child’s personal information shouldreport the matter to the FTCimmediately.

As the family waits to have Madison’s name removed from the jury duty list, her mom is also finding humor in the odd situation.“She might be really good at it, I don’t know,” Behrmann joked to WCBS. “But she will need an adult to take her to the bathroom.”

source: people.com