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Do the schools and pro teams really need your son's Social Security Number?

Do you leave it blank?

I really dislike the the information requests that are in the form of a returnable postcard! What a great opportunity for identity theft. All your bio info plus ss# on a postcard for everyone to read. I've been sticking the postcards into envelopes, but do they even need you social security number? I am sure the clearinghouse must allow the schools to use a name rather then ss# to access info??
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I think you are smart putting the post card in an evelope. Social security #'s are use in cases with the same names..you be suprised how many players have the same name...in fact I remember reading about a club that drafted the wrong player (they had the same name but played different positions)

While it is not the norm to run a criminal check the ss# helps to do this. I would keep providing it but definately the way you are doing is good in my job we hear about identify fraud quite often and it it happens it is a real pain for the innocent victem

sampb
Thanks for the insight.

Drafting the wrong player sounds like they were being careless, if thats what really happened. I would think that there aren't that many kids with the same name, birth date high school etc. which in theory should be just as easy to look up as a social security number. I am curious as to what the pro teams use the social security number of prospects for? I am guessing that they don't run crimal check$ etc. until they are ready to $ign someone. Thus, I am not sure they need the ss# of a prospect until then. ???
What we did was put in the blank space the wording "available upon request". That way they would know we did not skip it - we simply don't want to give it out to everyone.

We did not have any problems doing that. A few did ask, but only after we were further into the process than simply filling out forms and cards.

In todays world it never hurts to be cautious.

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