Identity theft is an increasingly common and utterly wretched experience, but it’s extra awful when the thief is Mom. Last week a 29-year-old Capitol Hill woman filed a police report against her 55-year-old mother, who lives in Los Angeles and who (ever since being released from federal prison, where she’d been serving time for fraud) has allegedly been using the daughter’s name and social security information to launch her schemes.

Who knows what the mother’s actual business is, but in IRS filings she claims to provide “in-home support services,” according to the police report. The daughter suspects it’s something illegal, as she recognizes names of the mother’s clients as those of past collaborators. But since the mother incorporated the business under her daughter’s name, it’s the daughter who hears from the IRS, which wants $2,500 in taxes. The report mentions how the last time around it was Home Depot that was demanding $38,000 from the daughter — debt all accrued by the mother.

Naturally, this hasn’t exactly helped the daughter’s credit rating. She has hired an attorney to help her save it. The daughter told police she hasn’t spoken with her mother in “several years.” If all the above is true, the silent treatment is the least of what mom deserves.