Posted on 07/07/2009 7:02:27 AM PDT by sdw2009
This week's "scare the heck out of you" post…
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Great. Just GREAT!
It is one thing to guess A social security number, it is quite another to guess YOUR social security number. A social security number is no good unless you can pair it up with a name.
If I were one among 1000, it would worry me. But I’m one among millions....I’ll worry about it when it effects me. P.S. I don’t have any money....so they’ll be dissappointed.
387-22-9836...there, I just guessed a SSN from Wisconsin!!!
If only those students had bothered looking at the SS site, they wouldn’t have had to waste so much time on this “study.”
After the real BC long form and the school records, I want to know who/what Hussein’s mama was up to in CT to file for his SSN there.
Ask anyone who has access to SSN’s at a place like a local community college or State University. After a while, you can figure out which students are from out of the area and out of the typical age range. When I had access to a group of high school students’ SSN’s, they all had similar digits for the first five numbers unless they were born out of state. Some of them were only off by one or two numbers.
OK,,, guess mine...
This is old news. Government has known this for years. In fact, the Air Force has a policy that you can’t use social security numbers as part of the random number to find people to take a drug test. The reason? It’s not random at all and if you know where someone was born you would have a good chance of pre-selecting that person based on SSN.
I remember the guy in that booth at the County Fair that used to guess SS numbers.... (hint: don’t tell them where you were born, as this will give away the first digit...)
My SS No. is on my Medicare Card and HMO card. In Virginia, I believe it was on my driver’s license and my checks.
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