[Harmless Teddy Bear]

That is already being done but a lot of the documents that we get have real numbers on them, they just don't belong to the person that is handing them to us. As I said, that leaves holes big enough to drive a truck through.

So on our own dime many employers are starting to do background checks on prospective employees. That catches more but depending if you want a statewide or a nation side search the charge is going to be between $200 and $500. That is onerous. And it is ending summer jobs. When it costs you $300.00 a pop to just weed out the bad apples you are not going to do it for someone that will be gone in three months.

[RegulatorCountry]

Those SSN numbers are tied to a name and an address. Going back to the credit card approval process mentioned in a previous post, it is not an insurmountable task to verify the first four letters of a person's last name, or some other similar method of verification. Even the electric utility does this, with telephone transactions.

[babygene]

"And it is ending summer jobs. When it costs you $300.00 a pop to just weed out the bad apples you are not going to do it for someone that will be gone in three months."

I'm afraid your being disingenuous here. Most kids looking for summer work will speak English without an accent, and you can call there dad to verify if if you want due diligence.

No risk to you, because you know where they are from. In other words do that dreaded profiling...