wrote:

Not long ago I got a fax from them and now I'm looking at what he says
his ssn is. To tell the truth I have problems believing this is valid,
because it looks just to small to me (it measures 6 by 12cm)

Huh? That doesn't quite make sense. I guess you're looking at a fax of the
actual card itself?

They're, um, 2" x 3.5" or something along those lines. Let's see, your
measurements scale out to about 2.5" x 5", roughly. That seems
suspiciously large.

If you go to www.google.com/images and search for "social security card" you
can see a variety of images depicting various incarnations of these things
over the years. They're all the same size, going way back to the '60s at
least. The color of the card and the layout and graphics have changed
somewhat over time.

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