Funny, Ken. I once received, at my home address, a credit card invitation in the name of a totally non-existent person(as far as I could determine). Just to "try" the system I filled out the form and sent it in, listing a 2nd card for "the wife"(of the non-existent applicant). After a couple weeks passed the notice arrived that applicant had failed to list appropriate Social Security numbers.
Applicant failed to respond to the above notice. However, a couple weeks later two cards arrived in the mail. A lawyer friend said, "Use it, pay it, and in six months you'll be bombarded by other credit card offers and junk mail." Statement charges were paid via Postal Money Order. Lawyer friend hit it right on-the-head. It happened. Then I stopped using the card(but the junk mail keeps coming).
HR