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RE: CreditCard info
On Sun, 7 Aug 1994 [email protected] wrote:
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> Brian Lane <[email protected]> asked:
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> > I filled out a credit app at Sears last month that asked for my SSN, I
> > didn't give it and didn't get credit either. What exactly is SS related
> > use? Banks, Employment only?
>
> Employers are REQUIRED to obtain an SSAN for tax purposes, as are banks for
> reporting interest, etc. to the IRS. Regarding credit, they generally ask
> for an SSAN because that's the "unique personal identifier" that most credit
> bureaus index your records by (and still screw them up, even then!).
>
> --- Diogenes
>
Yep, you give them the numbers and they still mess it up. My boss's
credit report had him with 2 Sears cards, one not his. My friend's credit
report showed that he had a lein agains his house(he doesn't own one), a
reposses car(not true), garnished(sp?) wages(not true). Pretty sad.
I guess a nation ID card/number/barcode/embedded microchip would solve
this, wouldn't it? I can see us making the progression - in 10 years all
newborns will have a small uP implanted into their hand(ala Demolition
Man) that will keep track of all their electronic data. Scares the crap
out of me.
Brian
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