How can I find out if my boyfriend's son's mom is using his social security number?

A saw something on the net a few months ago about this man who's father had set up bills and accounts in his son's name using his social security number.

This kid's mom hasn't been in his life in over a year. She's never had a job and leeches off the government, so I wouldn't put this past her. I'm probably just being paranoid, but this telemarketer company just called and asked for him. I told her he is 7, and she said she's take him off the list. I don't know what company or what she was calling from.

Like I said, I'm probably being paranoid, but I want to be safe about it for his sake.

Alan -- Thinking about it, my boyfriend's ex's mom (different ex, not the kid's mom) had put her and her sister's name on all kinds of things like cable and telephone. She didn't know about it until she was 18 and her credit was ruined. Nothing she could do about it.

see if experian, transunion, or equifax has anything under his credit file and if they do, tell them he is 7 years old and place a fraud alert against his social security number, you'll have to re-new the alert every three months, I pay 9.95 a month
thru my credit card company for credit monitoring. and go to the
do not call website and put your phone number on the list

Have a credit check done on his social security.

GET A CREDIT CHECK ON LINE WITH THE BOYS SS#

Wow. Off the top of my head the following things come to mind.

If your fears turn out to be true, understand because this is a minor child the full brunt of any losses will be borne by the stores or credit companies, not the minor child.

Commercial law protects minors. In otherwords, the law recognizes the minor's lack of capacity to enter into contracts and other such deals. Merchants entering into dealings with minors do so at their own risk, hence the reaction from the telemarketer.

If the mother is doing as you suspect, then this becomes fraud and the authorities and credit bureaus will need to be notified immediately.