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By: windbreaker

windbreaker — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:49:28 +0000

Cut their fingers off!!!!!!!

By: Judy Kettenhofen

Judy Kettenhofen — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:52:52 +0000

although this is an ancient post, I have to comment.
I, like you, Ryan, have 1 even and 1 odd number “in the middle
And I'm a lot older than you, so I don't think those numbers are a result of the SSA changing their numbering rules.

I've also been exposed to hundreds, if not thousands, of social security numbers. The only “pattern” I ever learned about SSNs had to do with the first 3 digits indicating the area/state of the country you were born in (I think, or maybe it was where you signed up for your SSN.)

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:00:19 +0000

the no odd numbers in the middle is wrong cuz i have an even and odd number in the two middle numbers and my first number isnt 0
but one way i know hes fake womens ss# ends in an even number mens in an odd number.

By: jerome bailen

jerome bailen — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:17:57 +0000

I signed up for LifeLock. They said the first month was free. In retrospect I cancelled my credit card number and received a new number within days of the deal with them over the phone. I often change my credit card number, saying it is lost or stolen; I find this practice consoling. When life lock agent called me a month later, she stated that she could not activate my account because the number of the credit card was not valid. That’s good.
The bad thing is that lifeLock would probably still have my SS number just for the free month of coverage. Oh well I can only hope for the best. I am an unemployed special education teacher(consider the need for us, yet buget cuts dictate the worse case scenerios). If someone uses my card number, what can I do?
Parenthetically, way back in the 1970’s I took a vacation down to Florida from Wisconsin with my girlfriend. Being in college with many things on one’s mind, who the heck thinks of a SS card. Well, I get a call from the bank in Wisconsin that my financial aid was going through(about three months after the Florida vacation), informing me that they have received my SS card from Florida. Come and get it,,, How mysterious…no ifoirmation as to how it got from Florida to my bank in Wisconsin was ever rendered by the bank. In fact, I remember answering the phone call from the bank, and only then checked my wallet to fing that my card was not in my wallet. It still is like a Japanese Koan. SS card last and returned to my financial ais bank carrier. Mystery of mysteries.
P.S. I was told in California at the DMV in the 90’s that my SS Card cannot be laminated. Well, how the heck do you keep a piece of paper, not even cardboard, in your possession for life, without being preserved. I know the metal ones are illegal, yet how many times do we purchase a new wallet.
Sincerely,
Jerry

By: John Holzmann

John Holzmann — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:24:41 +0000

Reply to Nick: There is no way the first five digits mean what you suggest.

1) Logically, If the first five digits tell state and year, then each state can issue no more than 10,000 SS#s per year for the unique last-four-digit identifiers 0000 to 9999.

2) My brothers and sisters and I all share the same first EIGHT digits. And we were born over the course of some nine years.

Back in the ’60s, when my dad signed us up, he was able to get numbers for all of us–in sequence.

RYAN: With respect to your 5/15/08 comment in which you wrote, “[H]ow long can a good faith suspicion last? Three months? A year? Two years?” Answer: “Considering the amount of identity theft . . . I’d say . . . forever.”

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:03:43 +0000

Its on the internet it must be true.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:00:51 +0000

I feel i should explain a little further on my last post…and apologize for my nonsense mistakes. First off, i said 6 digits i meant 5. There are other mistakes up there but my point is the same. The SSN shown would belong to a younger person. The first three of a social is the state they were born in (till that number is retired or exhausted) and yes ODD numbers in the 2 digit portion are issued. but they are issued mostly after all other 2 digit numbers have been issued.

Social security numbers are issued by the federal government not the local government so the same pattern applies regardless of what state generated them.

oh right, my point…That’s not his SSN.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:37:22 +0000

As we all know (or should know) a the first six-digits of a SSN can be decoded to reveal the state and year of the persons birth or issuance.(last four are a unique ID) Assuming dude was born in the US…in 2008/2009 he turned 27 years old.

The SSN he displayed was issued in Texas in 1982. I believe he’s from Texas. I don’t believe hes 27. If you search Google for decoding SSN’s your will find many of sources that will tell you the same thing. Dude’s a liar. Company campaigns on a lie (the same lie) well into 2009…I would say outside criticism is warranted, if not needed.

By: Tonia

Tonia — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:33:01 +0000

I know SS# can have the middle as odd numbers, mine does, my husband’s, and one of my daughter’s does. Also, I worked for a credit card company, as a collections agent, you know the “for security purposes may I get the last 4 of your social security number?” The company I worked for changed it to 5 consecutive numbers, so we could see the entire social security number. In the past the rule on the middle numbers may have been true, but I know it isn’t now. The service sounds great, but after looking into it, a little fishy.