Anndorie Sachs of Salt Lake City, UT, received an alarming phone call from the local hospital one day claiming that her newborn baby had just tested positive for illegal drugs. The only problem was that she hasn’t given birth in years. Child and Family Services of Utah even showed up at her door the next day and threatened to take away her four children accusing her of being an unfit mother. “I was absolutely floored, you would just never imagine in a million years that something could happen like this,” she told The CBS Early Show consumer correspondent. “As much as I denied it, they just kept insisting that, yes, I was the mother of this child and there was nothing I could say to get out of it.” It turned out that a 28 year-old alleged drug abuser had stolen Sachs’s driver’s license, walked into a hospital, had the baby and left the hospital leaving Anndorie with a bill for $10,000 and a fight to clear her name. To make matters worse, the issuing investigation made her life a living hell. ”They questioned my employer and interrogated my children.”



Lind Weaver of Palm Coast, FL, opened her mailbox one day to find a bill from a local hospital for the amputation of her right foot, but she never received such surgery. She walked into the facility and met with the chief administrator, “Obviously, I have both of my feet”, she told him. Weaver’s identity had been stolen by a fraudster who had used her social security number, her address and even her insurance ID number to have the expensive surgery performed. Even after she cleared her name, the nightmare continued. When she was hospitalized a year later for a hysterectomy, she realized that imposer’s health information was now mixed in with her own. The nurse reviewed her chart and said, “I see you have diabetes”, she doesn’t. “I now live in a fear that if something ever happened to me, I could get the wrong kind of medical treatment.” she said.