Not just giving out your SSN, but it could easily have been stolen for identity theft. Found out when my mother had received calls from both an insurance investigator in CA long ago, and another more recent by a police investigator in NC about a hit-and-run accident, whose tags traced back to her SSN. Problem is she stopped driving long ago, nor ever registered any vehicles in NC.
Did my own investigating, and pulled records to match all instances of her SSN to names, and found out that it was being actively used by about 5 different individuals. All of which appeared to be undocumented aliens. So could be a bigger problem than many realize?
