jj@rabbit.UUCP (05/17/84)
I didn't want to get into this one, but I can't let the attack on Tom Condon go completely unanswered. 1) This is net.consumers (and net.legal...), not net.flame. Personal attacks (if they have to happen at all) should be in mail or net.flame, and NOT in a serious newsgroup. 2) There are many, many documented incidents involving someone giving a fake SS number to banks/credit companies/employers, that have eventually come home to the real owner of the number in the form of cancelled credit, IRS audits, arrest warrants for Tax evasion, and the like. Not wanting to spread around the one number that the government uses to keep track of all your intimate activities, especially in light of the criminal actions that have been known, is merely prudent and reasonable. It is neither paranoid, nor silly. 3) Banks don't issue gas cards, gas companies do, and they want your SS# for credit checks. They don't use them to report the interest that you have PAID. Keeping track of that is your responsibility, and it is YOU that must prove to the IRS that you paid said interest if the IRS asks. 4) Banks DO have to report interest paid TO you. This has been covered many times in the past week, and I'll say no more. Please move the personal petulance to net.flame, or perhaps /dev/null, and let's use net.consumers for the use it was intended, namely consumer information. Thank you very much, -- TEDDY BEARS ARE MUCH NICER THAN PEOPLE--HUG YOURS, I DO! (Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale, and pay the reckoning on the nail, ...) (allegra,harpo,ulysses)!rabbit!jj
dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake) (06/18/84)
A lot of people in the military just print their social security number
on their checks, along with address and phone number. Maybe they are
anti-paranoid.
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+ Donald E. Eastlake, III
ARPA: dee@CCA-UNIX usenet: {decvax,linus}!cca!deescw@cepu.UUCP (06/20/84)
In article <730@cca.UUCP> dee@cca.UUCP writes: >A lot of people in the military just print their social security number >on their checks, along with address and phone number. Maybe they are >anti-paranoid. No, this is a holdover from the time when the Armed Forces had service numbers. Most stores near Bases like to see the persons SN on the check (as part of the printed information) Post/Base Exchanges require it. However since sometime in the '70s the Armed Forces have been using SSNs instead of unique SN sets (less numbers to keep around). -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 06'37" W 118 25'43"