[Vigilanteman]

This is a good solution but it is like locking the doors after the horses broke out of the barn. I refused to give our SSN in the beginning. It was testy. They said they needed it for insurance purposes. I told them they had an insurance card and they could use that number for insurance purposes.

Finally, they agreed.

Cases like this are exactly why every Tom, Dick and Harry operation should not be using SSN's for identification purposes.

[NautiNurse]

Cases like this are exactly why every Tom, Dick and Harry operation should not be using SSN's for identification purposes.

I absolutely agree, and the horses left the barn many years ago. Between overseas financial processing centers and hackers holding personal data for extortion, these are very scary times. The subject of this thread is a grain of sand compared to the vast electronic fraud potential.