Do you have a birthday and are you still breathing?

If so, you’re a potential target. Identity theft can happen to anyone with any kind of credit, bank accounts, a date of birth, a Social Security Number or any other type of personal identifying information.

And yes, that does include children. Identity thieves don’t care about the age of the person they’re pretending to be - they just want that personal information that can be used to get credit or other things in their name.

Even celebrities aren’t immune to it. Will Smith, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey have all been victims of identity theft.

Now, Will Smith could be a fairly common name so it might slip past but you’d think someone applying for credit as Oprah Winfrey or Steven Spielberg would raise a few flags.

If someone could pretend to be someone that famous and get away with it, what chance does an unknown like you or me have?