My wife has been using a fake social number to work and now we are applying for a green card

[Loren Y 2,756]

My mom works part time at a concrete place here in Las Vegas doing HR type stuff. About 50 employees have the same SS number. It's done everywhere, legal or not. I can go to the swap meet at pecos and Las Vegas Blvd, the broadacre swap meet and get all the documents I need to work for like 20 bucks. I really don't think anyone cares. Just what I see, I live in reality not fantasy. People work with fake SS numbers, probably in the millions of people that do. 

 

Maybe this is a good time to throw in a plug for LifeLock with their million dollar guarantee...LOL

[EmilyW 1,541]

I'm guessing anyone who doesn't care hasn't been the victim of identity theft.  Sign of the times, really.  Doesn't effect me = don't care.

[Crazy Cat 42,473]

6 minutes ago, Loren Y said:

My mom works part time at a concrete place here in Las Vegas doing HR type stuff. About 50 employees have the same SS number. It's done everywhere, legal or not. I can go to the swap meet at pecos and Las Vegas Blvd, the broadacre swap meet and get all the documents I need to work for like 20 bucks. I really don't think anyone cares. Just what I see, I live in reality not fantasy. People work with fake SS numbers, probably in the millions of people that do. 

 

Maybe this is a good time to throw in a plug for LifeLock with their million dollar guarantee...LOL

I hear ya.......Working with a fake SS number is one thing...but working with a stolen SS number is another story. If someone falsely claims to be a US citizen, it results in a permanent bar from residency and naturalization......

[Joy-girl 3]

Just get more clarification about the 'citizenship" concern that has been mentioned by many.  Non-US citizens also have SSN including international students etc. 

[Loren Y 2,756]

4 minutes ago, missileman said:

I hear ya.......Working with a fake SS number is one thing...but working with a stolen SS number is another story. If someone falsely claims to be a US citizen, it results in a permanent bar from residency and naturalization......

That's the big difference I would say. You have to look at it from the government standpoint. They are not going to enforced fake SS numbers because everyone that is out there means SS tax taken out of their paycheck and given to the us government and noone is coming back at tax time to claim it. I read a study once that said that is the only reason social security hasn't gone under. Those fake numbers generate billions of dollars in revenue for the government they can say doesn't exist. If your getting billions of dollars from fake numbers I'm in no big hurry to put a stop to it either.

[JFH 12,191]

7 minutes ago, Joy-girl said:

Just get more clarification about the 'citizenship" concern that has been mentioned by many.  Non-US citizens also have SSN including international students etc. 

Yes, many of us are non-citizens with an SSN. Green card holders (which I am) all have SSN numbers. 

 

But you are missing the point. When you start a job you have to complete an I-9 that asks the specific question as to how you are eligible to work in the USA. You have various options and you must select one. One option is USC, another is LPR (green card holder), another is non-resident with an EAD and so on. Our concern is that she checked the box “USC”. Had she checked the box “LPR” she would have to show a green card to prove this (as I did when I started work). So people who work illegally usually say that they are USCs as they have no green card or EAD to show. 

 

This is a separate issue to the fake/stolen SSN.

Edited September 6, 2018 by JFH

[AshMarty 360]

34 minutes ago, Loren Y said:

 

 

Maybe this is a good time to throw in a plug for LifeLock with their million dollar guarantee...LOL

This is no joke!

 

I had $14,000 stolen when my social security number was stolen and at the time it was 50/50 I would get it back from my bank. It took 5 weeks but they eventually gave it back to me. Every bank account and credit card I had was frozen (all accounts had to be closed under my social security number because no one knew which accounts were mine or false accounts) and all no one would give me any information about what was going on because the FBI was investigating the case. I literally had no access to any of my money/accounts for a month (this was multiple banks/credit cards). 

 

Lifelock would have been an amazing tool if I knew about it 3 years ago. I missed a week of work because of all of the reports I had to file and all the calls I had to make to ensure no more money was being stolen or purchases were being made with my social security number.

Edited September 6, 2018 by AshMarty

[EmilyW 1,541]

15 minutes ago, AshMarty said:

This is no joke!

 

I had $14,000 stolen when my social security number was stolen and at the time it was 50/50 I would get it back from my bank. It took 5 weeks but they eventually gave it back to me. Every bank account and credit card I had was frozen (all accounts had to be closed under my social security number because no one knew which accounts were mine or false accounts) and all no one would give me any information about what was going on because the FBI was investigating the case. I literally had no access to any of my money/accounts for a month (this was multiple banks/credit cards). 

 

Lifelock would have been an amazing tool if I knew about it 3 years ago. I missed a week of work because of all of the reports I had to file and all the calls I had to make to ensure no more money was being stolen or purchases were being made with my social security number.

This is why it's no joke and why people should care.  I haven't been in this situation but I know many who have and ALL OF THEM have had similar experiences of a life on hold while a sh*t storm not of their making gets cleaned up.

 

It's why I get annoyed with the 'don't care' argument.  This is the reality of identify theft.  It's no fantasy. 

Edited September 6, 2018 by EmilyW

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