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(...) he’d never given Amazon his Social Security number. But the fraudster evidently had, and that was apparently enough to convince Amazon that the imposter was him.

How come having someone's SSN is still enough to do stuff like this? It's not a secret number.

The problems just haven't reached critical mass yet, and it's still cheaper to ignore/bandaid than overhauling the system.

It's the US, where everything is always done in the worst possible way.

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.” -Churchill

I don't know man. 5guys and in n out are pretty good.

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