When I worked on Wall Street way back in the 90s we knew SSNs were useless for any sort of id... Too many 'shared' SSNs in, too many stolen SSNs. I highly dou

When I worked on Wall Street way back in the 90s we knew SSNs were useless for any sort of id... Too many 'shared' SSNs in, too many stolen SSNs. I highly doubt any financial instituation is using SSN as anything more then then 'corraborating' account access at this point. BTW - you might find this interesting: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html People thought they were getting an SSN when they bought the wallet...