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Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud
Tim Mullen, 2008-02-13

Americans lost over 45 billion dollars in identity-related fraud in 2007. Reports are so commonplace that we've actually become de-sensitized to them. "200,000 victims reported..." "500,000 victims reported..." Even figures into the millions don't seem to faze us anymore. And that is a Bad Thing.

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Tweaking Social Security to Combat Fraud 2008-02-15
h3h
Interesting article, and interesting comments. Arguments similar to this have been going around for quite some time, and I highly expect that will remain the case. I honestly don't expect anyone to ever do anything about this.

The main thing that makes a SSN dangerous to share is its link to obt...

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