Your Social Security Number on Sale for $35

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The battle has been lost unfortunately, but it is worthwhile to remember that the U.S. social security card was never intended to be a form of identification. In fact, the early cards said just that. Now the SSN has become a national ID number, which raises all manner of privacy issues and leaves a door wide-open for crooks and scam-artists to practice identity fraud.