Duplicate social security number?

[Syringer]

So a few days ago my friend's DirecTV stopped working, he calls them up and they tell him there's been fraud detected on his account.

Long story short then, he's told that there's someone else out there, in this world (not with DirecTV but found through the SS# database)--with the same social security number as him, and, this other person is much older than him.

Has anyone ever encountered such a situation? Is this a huge mistake/coincidence that this happened, or is someone out there pulling some sort of trickery here?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

with the USG in charge, anything is possible

 

[TheVrolok]

I would think there's some trickery going on.. but who knows. If it actually happened I can't imagine the headache that's going to cause.

 

[BrownTown]

shens

 

[Gooberlx2]

I doubt it's a duplicate...more like his identity was stolen. My wife had this happen to her several years ago. She didn't even know until some hospital called her up asking to settle the charges related to someone else having a child under her name.

Tell him to enable a fraud alert through the big credit agencies.

 

[T9D]

A lot of mexicans do this who are illegals. There are a huge number out there. They do it to get jobs here. There was a big thing on the news last year about it. More than likely thats what is going on.

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: v1001
A lot of mexicans do this who are illegals. There are a huge number out there. They do it to get jobs here. There was a big thing on the news last year about it. More than likely thats what is going on.

It's possible, he was born in San Diego and has a San Diego-esque SSN #..

 

[George P Burdell]

Identity theft? Likely
Two people with one primary key in the database? Less likely

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: v1001
A lot of mexicans do this who are illegals. There are a huge number out there. They do it to get jobs here. There was a big thing on the news last year about it. More than likely thats what is going on.

This is what I was going to post...MOST illegal immigrants use phony social security numbers, which USUALLY belong to someone else...
This shouldn't be a huge headache to clear up, but may be time consuming as he goes through the process to prove who he is.

 

[JEDI]

not possible of duplicate ss #.

there are a billion possible #'s. there's only been 700M people that were ever born since the USA was created in 1776.

and social security #'s started being issued when? 1920's after the great depression?

 

[IEC]

Identity theft, illegal immigrants, or both.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Unable to insert duplicate primary key row.

(0 rows affected)

 

[God Mode]

This wouldnt be such a problem if companies stopped relying and blatantly using SS numbers to open accounts and other shit. My brother had to deal with his SS number attached to 3 different mobile phone accounts.

 

[woodie1]

I'd suspect identity theft too.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Unable to insert duplicate primary key row.

(0 rows affected)

:laugh:

 

[acheron]

It's possible -- SSNs aren't guaranteed to be unique, and you should never use them as a primary key.

Everyone does so anyway, though.

 

[BassBomb]

I thought the thread title said dubplate

 

[Jessica69]

Originally posted by: acheron2112
It's possible -- SSNs aren't guaranteed to be unique...

Think about what you said.......then ask yourself, how does the IRS keep track of you and your taxes if there was the possiblity of real duplicate SSN's. Or Social Security itself.

The answer is there is NO real, legit possibility of the Social Security Admin. ever issuing duplicate SSN's....it's not as if they don't have access to each and every number they've ever issued....hence the SSA doesn't issue dups. At all.

 

[waggy]

yeap its possible. When i first filled tax's at 18 we ran into that mess. come to find out it was being used by someone else at the same time.

 

[ViviTheMage]

its VERY unlikely that it popped up now.

identity theft .

It would have happened ALOT earlier if it was truly a duplicate.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Originally posted by: Jessica69

Originally posted by: acheron2112
It's possible -- SSNs aren't guaranteed to be unique...

Think about what you said.......then ask yourself, how does the IRS keep track of you and your taxes if there was the possiblity of real duplicate SSN's. Or Social Security itself.

The answer is there is NO real, legit possibility of the Social Security Admin. ever issuing duplicate SSN's....it's not as if they don't have access to each and every number they've ever issued....hence the SSA doesn't issue dups. At all.

wiki entry says otherwise, but i cant find the source

 

[HardcoreRobot]

http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/5969

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Unable to insert duplicate primary key row.

(0 rows affected)

DAMNIT I'M TIRED OF THIS!!!

DROP TABLE tblSSN


BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Unable to insert duplicate primary key row.

(0 rows affected)

DAMNIT I'M TIRED OF THIS!!!

DROP TABLE tblSSN


BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Goddamn, you guys are fucking nerds.

 

[Cal166]

I once paid for a service and ran my SSN thru most of the database and it came back with 4-5 other person with other names on them. Most of them have a Hispanic name...