Desperate Mom Poses as Another Mom to Give Child Edge in Preschool

As our readers know, we have our weekly “Best” and Worst” people in identity theft posts each week. And, this week, we are breaking with the mold (a little bit), because we found a story that has us a bit confounded. Actually, we can’t even categorize it. All we can say is “wow.”

So here we go. We all know that getting your child into the right preschool can be a competitive and pressure-filled activity — especially for those who believe that the right pre-school will put a child on the path to the Ivy Leagues. Did anyone see the documentary Nursery University? We think you get the point.

Well in the UK, a devious mother posed as another parent in an attempt to remove a rival child’s name from a school waiting list. The woman created a fraudulent Gmail account to fool school authorities at the “outstanding” Coleridge primary school in Crouch End, London. Using this fake account and quoting the name and correct date of birth of the child, she wrote to education officials at Haringey council and told them to remove the four year-old girl from the list. Which they did. The ruse unraveled when the victim’s mother phoned to inquire about the progress of her child’s application.

Again, all we can say is “wow.” Read more from the Register here.