<prompt> Human: Not only do I have pictures of the papers with my faked signature saying that I am the sole customer of our electric bills, Ive also received an email from our cable provider saying that me, the customer for this as well, has paid x amount for the month.My dad is notorious for putting accounts under different peoples names. His credit is COMPLETELY shot and he is forced to cancel accounts because the bills go unpaid and pile up so high that he abandons them and starts a whole new one, and the cycle repeats.After reading over the electric bill I took a picture of with my phone, it appears that my dad owed them 809.01 so they shut down the service down so he made a downpayment of 127.83 to get the electric restored. The document itself was to ensure that he would keep paying based on this budget they worked out with him. He still owes 681.18. This means that he has missed payments under my name, and that I technically owe 681.18 to the electric company. Therefore, I do have debt following me. And this is just one of the services!I found out about these two accounts on my own secretly and was never notified by my dad. When I went up to him about it, I asked him about this email about the cable bill saying I was the customer. He got choked up said it must have been a mistake. He said hell make sure its changed by the next billing cycle and that it was fine and nothing to worry about and not a big deal.Then I come up a few hours later with papers in my hand from the electric company. I show him this, with my printed name and faked signature on it too. I asked who wrote this? and he claimed it wasnt him and possibly my mom who was staying with us for just that week bc divorced or someone else, and he acted very confused and stumbling with his words.I began getting very defensive and noted that this was his handwriting all throughout the paper, even on my printed name, implying the signature right underneath was his doing too.He then got extremely defensive, started cursing and threatening me. His anger went off the roof and he began getting completely ballistic. This was his defense mechanism for getting caught red-handed.I have no idea what other accounts have been opened up under my name and how many times hes done this to me. Hes canceled so many accounts due to an overflow of unpaid bills that Im scared to know who owes what anymore.I am just 17, and literally just got a debit card. I have never gave a thought to credit given that I never bought or signed my name to any bills before.What does the future hold for me? Am I obligated to pay off these fraudulent bills? Is my credit shot? How bad does this affect me? How can I prevent this from happening? Does my age, given that I am 17, have any affect on all of this too?I desperately need help here guys, because I truly think that I am fucked. Thank you so much for the future replies.Assistant: youre under 18, any contracts you sign into can be waived given that youre a minor is how Canadian law works, but it may be similarHuman: Im in the US, particularly NY. Assistant: Youre good.You cannot legally enter into a contract on your own.Furthermore, regardless of your age, nobody can legally enter you into a contract unilaterally.Human: Thats a really great and relieving point. Given that there are dates connected to these contracts, if I hypothetically find a fraudulent contract connected to me after I turn 18, will I be responsible for it, or will it be considered waived because at the time of the signing I was a minor? Assistant: No you wont get a free pass for it being started when you were a minor. Get this shot taken care of ASAP.Human: Is there any way for my dad not to get in legal trouble?  <response>: You could both be in huge legal trouble if you just ignore this and pretend its fine. Its not fine and highly and blatantly illegal what he did. 