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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: dsgalvin on July 21, 2013, 11:17 pm

Title: Need info on how to create new identity
Post by: dsgalvin on July 21, 2013, 11:17 pm
I have two questions; one, how would one use a forged social security card to start a bank account or get a credit card; two, do credit card companies or other institutions check to see if the ss# is valid? In essence, how do I create a viable, new identity?
Title: Re: Need info on how to create new identity
Post by: BTC King on July 21, 2013, 11:21 pm
i would love to know this too except i'm in the uk. preferably i would like to get a real passport with the fake identity
Title: Re: Need info on how to create new identity
Post by: abdomen on July 21, 2013, 11:33 pm
I remember a while back I heard of a guy who delivered a baby that was stillborn, and he never reported its death or anything. So it had a viable birth certificate, social security number, etc, and he just used that after a certain point at which it wouldn't be noticeable (i.e. when the fake person is 5 and you're 25 it'd be bad, but when he's 30 and you're 50 you could probably pull it off if you aged well)...

I dunno how he avoided getting caught when the 'kid' never showed up for school or got his immunizations, though.
Title: Re: Need info on how to create new identity
Post by: Boobonicchronic on September 26, 2013, 05:23 am
Any new ideas on this?
Title: Re: Need info on how to create new identity
Post by: Yoda on September 26, 2013, 06:45 am
I have two questions; one, how would one use a forged social security card to start a bank account or get a credit card; two, do credit card companies or other institutions check to see if the ss# is valid? In essence, how do I create a viable, new identity?

Basically, you cant just create another identity.  At least from what I've read.  The best you can do is ghost someone... which is nearly impossible to do as well.

Ghosting is what abdomen is talking about... you pretend to be someone that's dead.  Like Principle Skinner on the Simpsons.  The problem with this is that you must match up someone that is around your age, and more importantly, the government cant know this guy is dead.  The social security administration keeps a Master Death File and a Social Security Death Index which is open published.

So if you were a killer and knew someone around your age that had no family... you could secretly kill him, obviously destroy all traces of his body, and assume his identity preferably across the country someplace where nobody knew you or him.

But once a SSN is entered into the SSDI, that number is useless.  Not sure how banks etc. check the numbers, but that doesn't matter because they obviously do.

Or perhaps you could pay some foreign person for all their info etc., then try to live as them here somehow.  Not sure how this would work out though.

Obviously the government doesn't want people to be able to do this... so over the years they have closed virtually every loophole.  Even if you stole someone's identity, that would only be good for maybe a year (taxes)... then you'd have to become someone else.

Maybe there is an easier way, but I haven't come across it... real life isn't the movies.