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Can you really quickly get a social security number?

• thirsteh 13y ago
  "I'm glad to let you know that you qualify for X healthcare coverage. Can I just have your social security number and we'll send over the confirmation documents?" Yes, people fall for this kind of stuff all the time.
• X4 13y ago
  ehrm in sweden, yes.. those people are so mad that they allow a reverse search!!! I made payment gateways for companies there and was surprised by that. What's really sad is that, if all those phone numbers were already public, I guess nobody would have cared to create something like SnapChat in the first place..
• kvb 13y ago
  In many cases it's much easier than you'd expect. See e.g. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/ssnstudy/ http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/ssnstudy/ (TL;DR: "we show that it is possible to predict individual SSNs simply from publicly available data").