Re: Radio Shack® policy invites Identity Theft

"Ralph Mowery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > If the person was signing up for a wireless phone account they do
require
> > the SSN.
> >
>
> If they did require the SSN I would go with another service.  I am not
sure
> of the law now, but if it was not for some US Government form (mostly for
> taxes but it could be others) , it used to be against the law to require
you
> to give out your ssn.
>
>

Yeah, your SSN was not allowed to be an identification number. But now, your
government looks at you a bit differently, and that string of digits has
become your Taxpayer Identification Number. Pay up, sucker.

Ed