Originally Posted by
cepheid
Seriously, how can your cat get his own credit cards if he has no SSN? Credit card companies require the SSN of the primary cardholder. Moreover, any application filed "by" your cat would be fraudulent, since your cat can't legally sign the application. My answers to your questions would therefore be, "No, not legally." Of course, IANAL, I have no idea what the CC company may or may not catch, and I am neither encouraging nor discouraging this idea.
you are being too serious
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I have heard many stories of such things and sometimes, when we do NOT like it, someone gets our info causes havock.
There have even been sad stories of people getting cards where someone's 3 year old now has bad credit before they even would have been able to legitiamtely GET credit! And it's the parents of that 3 year old who have to fix it.
Nonetheless, if you were able to get a card for your cat--and somehow the cat's application process circumvented the need for an SSN, then that's great! I would think it would be relatively easy to just claim the cat died and then ask to have the miles transferred as the executor of a will might. Or, maybe do a transfer in the airline. My question is, if you needed to get an award ticket from say, United miles that the cat holds, and it was to fly on a partner airline like US Air, then how would the airline handle the "bluey?" I mean, would the cat have to go to the airport, show ID and sign it over to you or what?
