RE: A day in the life

Harry Bartholomew[SMTP:bart0@earthlink.net]

My SS# begins 078- Issued in NY in the 50's

Harry Bartholomew

7/21/2003 12:25:35 AM, Bill Stewart wrote:

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At 03:01 AM 07/21/2003 +0000, Justin wrote:

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So I have seen two separate businesses today who are just shooting

J.A. Terranson (2003-07-20 21:07Z) wrote: themselves

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in the head over the acquisition of data in the face of obvious

refusal.

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.... I'm surprised they didn't ask for your SSN ... as an index for the database...

I've adopted a SSN I use for idiots like that. I don't know whether it's assigned, but it's in the valid range. Isn't that just terrible.

Please don't do that. You might pick a number belonging to some poor working guy and mess up his credit or yours.

I read on the net that Richard Nixon's SSN is 567-68-0515, and then there's that usual 078-thing from fake SSN cards in wallets.

From: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/ssn/SSN-addendum.html#FakeNumbers Making a 9-digit number up at random is a bad idea, as it may coincide with someone's real number and cause them some amount of grief. It's better to use a number like 078-05-1120, which was printed on "sample" cards inserted in thousands of new wallets sold in the 40's and 50's. It's been used so widely that both the IRS and SSA recognize it immediately as bogus, while most clerks haven't heard of it. There were at least 40 different people in the Selective Service database at one point who gave this number as their SSN. The Social Security Administration recommends that people showing Social Security cards in advertisements use numbers in the range 987-65-4320 through 987-65-4329. There are several patterns that have never been assigned, and which therefore don't conflict with anyone's real number. They include numbers with any field all zeroes, and numbers with a first digit of 8 or 9. - end quote - Peter Trei