It is common as part of a credit check process. A SSN can be used to validate financial and educational information.""
Let them contact your prior provider. That is all the payment timely proof you really need.
A Calif woman has found that a Male Mexican is working in eastern Washington on a horse farm with HER soc Sec number. The bank has issued HIM a PICTURE credit card with her name and his picture. When she contacted the credit card people to have it stopped because he is using her number, their answer was" We cannot stop the card because he is paying the bill timely". Yet they acknowledge that they issued a PICTURE card to him with her name, which is obviously a female name.
What a wonderful world we live in in the name of the dollar.
Are you saying you've never come across a Mexican man named Petunia Alexander?