Social Security Number Processing. HEEELP!!!

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stanislav.ivasyuk
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Social Security Number Processing. HEEELP!!!

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Hi everybody!

Please tell me how to VERIFY (process) SSN online. What are the instruments and how does this all work.

I need to verify SSNs ONLINE to check whether cuscomers exist etc. BUT HOW TO DO THAT?!!

Thanks!

I would be very grateful for any kind of answer - from consultation to links to helpful documents.

Stanislav Ivasyuk
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well, you aren't really telling us all that much. Are you talking about checking a database for a specific SSN, and then posting what user corresponds to it ? If so, what database are you using? Do you have any code you have written so far on the project? If so, care to post it so we can see where your problems are occuring at ?
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Post by stanislav.ivasyuk »

infolock wrote:well, you aren't really telling us all that much. Are you talking about checking a database for a specific SSN, and then posting what user corresponds to it ? If so, what database are you using? Do you have any code you have written so far on the project? If so, care to post it so we can see where your problems are occuring at ?
Dear Sir, thank you for your responding me.

The task is following.

A visitor purchases mobile phone and provides SSN as well as credit card number. My task is to check the validity of SSN (that means I shall have to check the provided SSN with the governmental database to ensure that the provided SSN corresponds to the given first name, last name, birthdate etc).

How to do that?

Thank you.
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Post by infolock »

heh, no offense, but I don't think you are ever gonna be able to do anything like that. Not because it wouldn't be possible, but because the government isn't going to give you access to their database that holds these SSN's :P
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Post by stanislav.ivasyuk »

infolock wrote:heh, no offense, but I don't think you are ever gonna be able to do anything like that. Not because it wouldn't be possible, but because the government isn't going to give you access to their database that holds these SSN's :P
:-D

I thought so, though, the government provides the way to check SSNs offline.
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Post by infolock »

checking offline is one thing, since they are actually either talking to you face to face, or at least have a trace on the line. But still, they will not give out sensitive information such as SSN's of people... not even yours unless you can provide them with enough information ;)
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