Re: SSN Validity Checking

During the Exxon oil spill project, we had to modify our software package
for the company that did the cleanup. Their payroll grew by > 10,000 people
within 60 days, and we found quite a number of duplicates. They also were so
busy getting warm bodies hired that they didn't care that SSN's were being
shared by some of the people showing up to work (try to get a picture in
your mind here that these were not members of Greenpeace or the Sierra
club). The fine from the government that year for "improper record-keeping"
was $250,000. Small potatoes and an acceptable risk, when you consider that
they billed Exxon $750,000,000.

Paul Nelson
Braxton-Reed, Inc.
630-327-8665 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@braxton-reed.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@samsa.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:15 AM
Subject: RE: SSN Validity Checking


> What a scary thought.
>
> - Dan Bale
> (I am *NOT* "Dale"
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200105/msg00281.html )
> SAMSA, Inc.
> 989-790-0507
> DBale@SAMSA.com <mailto:DBale@SAMSA.com>
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Jim Knight
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:02 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: SSN Validity Checking
>
>
> We have found numerous duplicate SSNs assigned to different people.
> Apparently in the 30's, a large portion of the tracking documents got
> destroyed in a fire and some offices reissued SSN's that had already
> been assigned.  So they are not necessarily unique.
> jk
>
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