Is applying for a credit card with fake SSN a crime?
I have heard from a few undocumented aliens wanting to find out how come so many illegal immigrants have fraudulent Social Security numbers with which they have opened bank accounts, credit cards, received car and home loans, and needless to say, worked and filed taxes (while also receiving refunds from the IRS). Can they do it? What problems does it pose? What penalties are there, if any, because so many of these unauthorized immigrants seem to have perfectly normal lives? So let us first talk about having a false SS# with respect to United States laws , whether it is completely phony (that is a number pulled out of a hat by crooks who sell forged documents online or in immigrant neighborhoods) or belongs to dead individual or a child or belongs to another individual who has either allowed you to use that number (you can not legally allow someone to use your SSN but you can definitely say that you will not report that as a crime) or you have simply decided to use that number