Al Hoffman
For Ashley Andrews and Murray
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If the identity of the actual John Budd had a birth year of 1994, I can see why CR used 1994 instead of his actual year of birth.
A person named at birth, John Budd, in 1994 probably was living and then died. I had done a search and was surprised how many death records there are for John Budd. I assume that the identity was stolen from a deceased person.
Yes, but the Social Security Administration maintains "Death Files" of SSN recipients who have died. When you verify a SSN through the older SSNVS portal or E-Verify system, it will kick it out if the original SSN holder has died.
This is why you want to start with the ID of someone who died before they ever could have ever received a SSN. Much harder to find today, as hospitals will now routinely insist that you sign the paperwork that allows them to file for a SSN for your newborn, even though there is no Federal law or mandate that requires this. (This is likely done, in case they have to retroactively file for Medicaid on a patient. Especially any patient admitted under the Federal 1986 EMTALA law, the same law which mandates that undocumented alien women in active labor MUST be admitted and treated by any hospital that receives any Federal reimbursement whatsoever!). Prior to 1986, most people under 14 did not need or have a SSN. Federal law requiring SSNs to file dependants on your IRS tax forms changed that. It also opened up a new avenue of income for the underground economy: selling your kid's SSN if you did not need it to file for Taxes, but someone else did. A fertile area for SSN fake ID mining is non-income producing minors, though there could be problems with their digital footprints.
This is why you want to stick with much older dead name templates, a tabula rasa on which to build useable fake document sets.
It is harder to create a legitimate set of fake documents from a person who has a previous footprint in the system, as your efforts to obtain a new, "clean" SSN could get tripped up by their digital trail.
Once you start living under a fake ID, you of course stick with their vital statics such as DOB.
The SSA has issued some 346 million SSNs to date (I think) with 5.5 million issued yearly. Plenty of room in these kinds of numbers, for a motivated, skilled grifter to set to work. The Internet has made somethings easier.
I had acquantances who did this sort of stuff "professionaly", before Osama Bin Laden and 9/11 messed it up for everyone. Things were a lot easier back in the day!
I can talk freely now, because everyone I knew is now dead. I really do miss those characters, and her BIG dog Beau too!
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