Last week when Wells Fargo called me to verify my identity due to a “fraud alert” on my VISA card they asked me “What state issued you your Social Security card?” as part of trying to prove that they were talking to “the real me”.
Wells Fargo is only the nations largest of Barry’s four crony capital guaranteed “Too Big To Fail” banks!
If the first three digits of a person’s SS# weren’t important anymore, you would think Wells Fargo would have been informed not to use it to help ID me with it!
My great-grandma actually applied for my ssn for me when I was a child. Myself and my brother that is. She lived in FL and we lived in VA. So we have/had (brother deceased) a ssn that originates from a FL county. I had a life insurance nurse sharply question me on it a few years ago. Turns out she knew it was an indicator of where the ssn was issued from. Nan has a LOT of pull in those days, so it seems there was not a problem for her to apply for our ssn. Maybe she was never challenged, but I never asked, so I don’t know.