<prompt> Human: Exactly what the title says, my girlfriends parents are using her information including social security number to accept thousands of dollars in winnings, close to 10,000, from scratcher tickets and has been getting letters from the IRS about W-2Gs. The letters have been coming in for some time and she was never told about them until she found a stack of them in her parents room. She confronted her parents but they basically didnt tell her anything about them and said they had the right to use her information to accept the winnings because theyre her parents. I have no experience with anything like this and wanted to know if this will backlash on her in anyway and if so how do we handle this.  <response>: RED ALERT ! RED ALERT ! PANIC ! PANICThats what it should sound like in your and your gfs brains when they say they had the right to use her information.This might turn into loans and or credit cards later because they have the right to do so. She needs to tell the IRS it wasnt her. She needs to tell the police it wasnt her if she has the means to move out. She needs to tell the credit bureaus to lock her credit down in case they try something else or if they have already.This is identity theft, bare and brazen, and they believe theyre in the right! Now is definitely the time to panic. 