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Re: Bare Social Social Security Numbers


From: "H. Morrow Long" <morrow.long () YALE EDU>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:22:56 -0500

On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:14 AM, H. Morrow Long wrote:
On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Keith Schoenefeld wrote:
I think it would be awfully tough for someone to actually put
names to the SSNs.

The following are advertised on Google:

And I just found one place which will do it for you for $7:

Sponsored Links
Instant SSN Trace $7
Give us the SSN, we'll give you
the names and addresses. Fast!
www.sentrylink.com

They state that they will only provide name and alias info if you also
supply a last name so I guess the only thing you would get for $7 &
and SSN would be verification that the SSN is valid (which might be
useful).

Morrow

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