Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekig.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekig!erice From: erice@tekig.UUCP (Eric Etheridge) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Don't use my SSA as a unique identifying indicia for me my name is... Message-ID: <2598@tekig.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-May-85 03:25:06 EDT Article-I.D.: tekig.2598 Posted: Tue May 14 03:25:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 16-May-85 02:21:19 EDT References: <25524@lanl.ARPA> <10476@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 25 HEY!!! I've got a good story about getting credit! Well, Amex was insisting on me applying for one of their silly little prestige-gold-additional- marketeering-motivational-adjectives cards and....well, they wanted the old SSN. So, lesse what's got 9 digits, two dashes, and is easier to uniquely identify an individual's database in a computer with than a name? Hmmm, how about 483-29-6327. About two weeks later I get a call from their goofball department wanting to know if this is really my SSN or if 937-27-3826 is, a number which I can practically GUARANTEE I would have never made up. (Two pair) Well, they sed that sometimes the credit bureau gets confused about mommies and daddies SSN and those of offspring. SOOOOoooo..... I guess I never did manage to get the super dooper wanker card but I just got a regular one. Does that mean that they will give the little wanker's card to anyone who asks even if the do make up SSN's or that they can't tell the differance and don't care? It sounds to me like you can just go a head and start your credit history (if you actually even WANT one) with whichever number just occurs to you and proceed to build a most respectable and generous background. SUPPOSEDLY the law requires only that you reveal your SSN to your employer and, I guess now, your interest payer though it sounds like you won't go to jail for refusing to do the latter. Anybody else is unjustified in the asking so??????? But if you want whatever they've got so bad I guess it's time to bend over. Is there any truth to the rumor that TRW maintains the credit historys for everybody in the universe?