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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 2008-02-18
Anonymous
The problem is that your SSN is allowed to be used for _anything_ other than Social Security and Taxes.

The author spends too much time trying to maintain the credit history linkage through the SSN. If there is a clear path from old SSN to new SSN it won't help anything.

Identity fraud occurs...

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