Fake SS# Credit Application Legality

I received an email from ATH looking for people to go to an airport kiosk and apply for a credit card.

Part of the instructions in the email read:

You MUST apply for the card using a provided social (no credit hit). *If you use any SSN besides the one that is provided to you, your shop will be Excluded with NO pay!* If the electronic application is unable to go through with the provided SSN, simply politely end the interaction and explain what happened in your shop report.

I understand the value in not having a hit on your own SS#, but I'm not sure it's not credit fraud to use any other number than your own.

Thoughts?

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I've done the ones for the disney store with the assigned SS# and apply for credit cards. I'm sure that the client had to make arrangements for the special SS#.

I would not be concerned about fraud because it is to the client that the SS# provided by their agent (the MSC) is being provided. This clues the client in that this is not to be a real card. What you are doing is testing the location and the cashier at that location.

They give you a number that could not possibly be a valid SS#.

They give one that will go no further than their system.

I tend to understand that one will not get in trouble for this, but I still wonder if within the letter of the law it is ever legal to use a fake SS# in an application for credit.

Obviously not, but since the MSC indicates you will not be paid for using any other number than the one assigned, YOU are not applying for credit.

@kafkan wrote:

I tend to understand that one will not get in trouble for this, but I still wonder if within the letter of the law it is ever legal to use a fake SS# in an application for credit.

You are using a test number provided by the client, as a IC, with consent. This has nothing to do with the Federal laws you are concerned about.

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@kafkan wrote:

I tend to understand that one will not get in trouble for this, but I still wonder if within the letter of the law it is ever legal to use a fake SS# in an application for credit.

The number provided is not a Social Security Number. It is a number, created by the client, for entry into the SSN field in their system. It is no more a Social Security number than 99/99/9999 is a date.

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