My mom's minister's husband died in a swimming accident last summer, in his forties. It was in the papers.

Sure enough, some lowlife appropriated his identity and perpetrated some credit card frauds.

So if you are known to be a dead person with a good credit rating, seems like it's pretty likely to happen.

Everyone, not just credit bureaus, can find out enough about you to become you on plastic....so it seems.

W-O