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Phrack Inc. Volume 02 Issue 19 File 04
==Phrack Inc.==
Volume Two, Issue 19, Phile #4 of 8
Social Security Number Formatting
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Shooting Shark 21 June 88
Certain types of computer-related fraud, such as creating dummy
entries in payroll databases, require the creation of a false Social Security
Number (SS#). Many employers attempt to detect "ghost" SS#s by running a
verification program on them. In this article I will show how to defeat
verification by creating a legitimate-looking SS#.
First, some general rules to follow:
o The middle two digits of a SS# can be odd or even
if issued after 1965. All numbers issued before 1965
that have middle digits of 10 or above should be even.
o So far, no SS#s have been issued with a first digit
of 8 or 9. Very few numbers above 595 have been issued,
so use caution. 700-729 were issued by the Railroad
Retirement Agency a long time ago, and thus would belong
to older people. No numbers in the 596-626 have been
assigned yet (as far as I know), but 596-599 has been
reserved for Puerto Rico, 600-601 for Arizona, and
602-626 has been reserved for California.
The next step is required only if it is necessary that the place of
issuance (and thus, probably, state of birth or residence) match the SS#. In
this case, refer to the following table:
First Three Digits Area
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000 Foreign-Exchange, visitor, etc. (many college
students will have these)
001-003 New Hampshire 004-007 Maine
008-009 Vermont 010-034 Massachusetts
035-039 Rhode Island 040-049 Connecticut
050-134 New York 135-158 New Jersey
159-211 Pennsylvania 212-220 Maryland
221-222 Delaware 223-231 Virginia
232-236 (EXCEPT
SS#s starting with
"232 30"...) West Virginia
232 30 North Carolina
237-246 North Carolina 247-251 South Carolina
252-260 Georgia 261-267 Florida
589-595 Florida 268-302 Ohio
303-317 Indiana 318-361 Illinois
362-386 Michigan 387-399 Wisconsin
400-407 Kentucky 408-415 Tennessee
416-424 Alabama 425-428 Mississippi
587-588 Mississippi 429-432 Arkansas
433-439 Louisiana 440-448 Oklahoma
449-467 Texas 468-477 Minnesota
478-485 Iowa 486-500 Missouri
501-502 North Dakota 503-504 South Dakota
505-508 Nebraska 509-515 Kansas
516-517 Montana 518-519 Idaho
520 Wyoming 521-524 Colorado
525 New Mexico 585 New Mexico
526-527 Arizona 528-529 Utah
530 Nevada 531-539 Washington
540-544 Oregon 545-573 California
574 Alaska 575-576 Hawaii
577-579 Washington, D.C. 580 Virgin Islands
580-584 Puerto Rico
586 Guam, American Samoa, and Philippine Islands
700-729 Railroad Retirement
An example: If you were Stan Cisneros living in Burlingame, California, and
you were born in 1970, your SS# might be 546-28-4197.
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