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Re:The New ID Theft: Millions of Credit Applicants Who Don’t... by paulsutter on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:16PM (#16546813)
No it’s actually really Simple to test if an SSN (a) has been issued and (b) is not deceased (had to do it in s project about 20 years ago, there is a file of highest issued numbers and a file of deceased SSNs)

So they can verify it. Apparently they don’t which somehow doesn’t surprise me at all

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Re:The New ID Theft: Millions of Credit Applicants Who Don’t... by FireBeyond on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:23PM (#16547734)
Yeah, it's always a lot of fun for me actually convincing banks they're allowed to open accounts for me, when I was born 40 years ago but my SSN was "issued 12 years ago"...
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