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Yes, they can. This happened to me in August by Capitol One and I only found out yesterday because I ran my credit report. Apparently, they don't even need the secondary person's social, just name and birthday and they send the information to the credit bureau, making this show up on the secondary person's credit report.

I want to know how this is legal!

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