IRS tells 7-year-old boy he owes back taxes on $60,000


Another Carpentersville resident has gotten a notice from the IRS, demanding back taxes on income.

The IRS says the resident owes taxes on $60,000.

Only this victim is 7. Yes, a second-grader.

He's the latest Carpentersville resident, police said Friday, to fall victim to identity theft.

He may, however, be the youngest.

His identity has been in use by someone else since 2001.

Detectives accused a Streamwood man of using the boy's personal information not long after the boy was born in 2001.

Cirilo Centeno, 29, of 1101 Sunnydale Blvd., was charged with felony identity theft, an offense that could land him in jail for between four and 15 years if he is convicted.

The victim's mother claimed the boy as a dependent on her 2007 income tax and was informed by the IRS she could not -- that his Social Security number was being used by someone else.

In 2005, she had filed a report with police because someone was using her son's Social Security number to obtain unemployment benefits and her son was only 4 years old at the time.

Police didn't get far in that investigation.

This time, Carpentersville police contacted the unemployment office in Elgin and learned the offender had just filed another claim to receive benefits.

They were able to locate a telephone number and called Centeno, who identified himself by the name of the 7-year-old, police said.

Police were able to obtain an address from the man on the telephone and two detectives drove to his home in Streamwood, police said.

According to a report, Centeno showed police a Social Security card bearing the name of the victim and Centeno's photo.

Centeno said he has used the Social Security card with the victim's information to obtain a truck, three separate jobs, gas and electrical service for his home, a credit card, unemployment benefits twice for a total of six months, and over $60,000 in pay and services, police said.

Centeno said he bought the card for $50 from a friend and used it because he is in the country illegally, police said.

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Daily Herald | Another Carpentersville resident's identity stolen -- this one 7 years old

I say the kid pays it back by whipping the criminal with his belt at $5000 an hour...

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I've got a friend who recently had a kid.
Like many tech-saavy parents, he put up web-site with pictures and info about his baby.
I was interested that he didn't put his boy's name on the web-site, which I thought odd.

In talking to him, he stated that he kept some info off the web-site due to identity fraud concerns.
If you think about it, such web-sites have a LOT of critical "identity theft" info.
Place of Birth, Parents names, Date of Birth, ...

It's obviously not including Social Security number, but the above is obviously more than a person typically has.
It's disturbing to consider that maybe that type of thing helped some identity theft in this story.

Yup...

You hear stories like this all of the time, but what should also be mentioned is the lack of prevention taken...

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If a certain course of action makes the mouth-breathers furious, then that’s a good policy. – The Practical Environmentalist

Some forums go so far as to have an option on members' personal profile for their real name...

I find that dangrous and refused to make it an option...

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