Re:The Most Misused SSN of All Time
by Spooky23 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:24AM
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A friend went through this type of situation. What happened in her case is that somebody with a bad credit history used to use her cellphone number years ago.
When my friend linked her CVS account to her mobile phone, CVS sells each interaction to various parties. There's a whole business where certain debt collectors will buy almost aged out debt for $0.01 on the dollar, "make contact with the debtor" and once that happens, they can resell the debt for $0.05 on the dollar.
All of the sudden she started getting messages that she won cars, etc. All attempting to establish contact.
Because companies buy and mix data from different sources, it's easy for companies to inject bad data, as they assume that certain types of data are highly reliable.
When my friend linked her CVS account to her mobile phone, CVS sells each interaction to various parties. There's a whole business where certain debt collectors will buy almost aged out debt for $0.01 on the dollar, "make contact with the debtor" and once that happens, they can resell the debt for $0.05 on the dollar.
All of the sudden she started getting messages that she won cars, etc. All attempting to establish contact.
Because companies buy and mix data from different sources, it's easy for companies to inject bad data, as they assume that certain types of data are highly reliable.