[jpurdy@ohiochristian.edu]

Kevin,

Thanks for sharing the fraud case. That is a tragic ending. You are correct that fraud is much too common. My husband’s social security number was stolen from our company’s records. Shortly after that, someone filed taxes in our name. The only good news was that apparently whatever they filed was so off that the IRS contacted us telling us what had happened and they explained that the request was denied and gave us a PIN to use for our valid filing so that they knew it was us.