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Interesting. Thanks. I'm going to use my TIN, which I had forgotten about,
but what you say makes sense.
Thing is, people are going to have start figuring out a better way to do
this because the last four digits is kind of prevalent for many
over-the-phone things wrt banking info. Come to think of it, that too
probably going to go the way of the dinosaur.
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> Using the last four of the SSN for ID is getting so common now.
> Recruiters must avoid double submissions because companies will reject any
> candidate who has been submitted more than once. Two people may have the
> same name, but it is unlikely that two people will have the same *and* the
> same last four numbers of the SSN. Other forms of ID may work, like driver
> licenses, but not everyone has a license to drive. Also, people not
> authorized to work in the U.S. will not have an SSN but they can have a
> driver license.
>
> You can tell them that for privacy reasons you will not provide any part
> of your SSN until you are negotiating a contract. You can suggest using
> all 9's until you reach the contract negotiation phase.
>
>
>
> On 10/26/2012 8:39 AM, Jim Jones wrote:
>
>> A consulting firm wants to submit my credentials to a client firm of
>> theirs
>> for a possible contract job. They asked me for the last four numbers of my
>> SSN [not the whole thing].
>>
>> I am thinking that I should balk because, even though it is true that it
>> is
>> not the entire SSN that they are asking for, still those last four are in
>> fact used a lot out there in the market, for serious things, informally.
>> What do you think?
>>
>
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