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Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by jackhack on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:09AM (#21070910)
It could be a result of autocomplete. Entered/pasted once, auto-complete forever. In this anonymous person's defense, he might not know how to turn it off or change it. (With most browsers, it's buried down in a menu.) Meanwhile, just add KMart.com to your blocked domain list. that's 50% of the problem solved.

speaking of using others' numbers, I use 867-5309* for the shopper-loyalty-card number at every retailer that asks for one (in exchange for discounts). I think that dozens of others must use this number as well, as the supermarket receipt sometimes shows totals of $10,000-20,000 per week for "my" account.

*For those born after the 1980s, the song "Jenny (867-5309)" was a hit for the band Tommy TuTone and received significant airplay. It was a catchy tune, and the phone number was the chorus. As such, it's an easy number to remember.

Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by JRKrause on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:45AM (#21071261)
I am continually impressed how often this works, even at small obscure grocery stores the pattern of (local area code)-867-5309 will always be registered.
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by fancy_pantser on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:08AM (#21071474)
I personally use it as a grocery store gas discount code when I'm in areas that have chains offering it. The receipts usually show thousands of dollars per month worth of "points".

Gives me a self-organizing-system chuckle every time.

Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by nsilvestri on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:58PM (#21073333)
At some stores (Rite Aid comes to mind) that number is disabled. 281-330-8004, from a song by rapper Mike Jones, works nearly as well as Jenny's.
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by autoexec on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:54PM (#21073984)
I use an email address @example.com when people ask for an email address unless I know they are going to send me a confirmation email I need to accept. Most of the time it's accepted just fine.
Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time by Izkata on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:22PM (#21077584)
Late 90s/early 2000s, 773-202-5862 - Luna

(Carpet/flooring company. The last four numbers are L-U-N-A, which they still use in a different number.)