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Originally Posted by Weed Smoker
no, no it couldn't
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One of those 'novelty' IDs online, probably no... but if you've got a SSN and can forge the raised seal on a birth certificate you could become them without much issue. (For anyone serious about faking identities, a simple notary emboss should be cake.)
It probably varies by state but the system here is back-fuckwards.
I lost my wallet about two years back, and my SocSec card had long since disintegrated from age.
I went to the DMV to get my license reissued with just my birth certificate and a few paystubs in hand, and they said they needed my SocSec card... nothing else could be used to verify ID... had to be that card.
So I went to the SocSec office to get a new card printed with my birth certificate and pay stubs... and they said I had to have a
State issued ID... nothing else could be used.
I drove back to the DMV and asked what the fuck kind of sick game I was playing, and they explained I needed to ask the SocSec office for a
temporary card. Wat? Ok... so I drive back again. They won't give me a real SocSec card with just a name and birth certificate, but they'll give me a
temporary card... which is just the SSN printed out on a sheet of paper on their letterhead.
So I take this
printout back to the DMV... and they accept this as proof of my SSN... and reprint my ID. I then take this ID back to the SocSec office... and that becomes proof of ID to get the card reprinted.
Hell, I don't even think you'd need to know your own SSN (lots of folks don't have them memorized) if you had that birth certificate. The SocSec office will look it up and hand it to you. *facepalm*