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I also noted that it asked for the last 6 digits of your social. Could be they need more digits to avoid duplicates, but I've never heard anyone ask for 6 digits. Usually it's just the 4.

Honestly, they should have used a subdomain off of Equifax.com.

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The bad thing about that is the first 3 digits are the location digits, so someone that has the last 6 digits can easily guess your full SSN if they know where you were born (or where you lived when you got your SSN).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Social_Security_Area_N...

This only works for social security numbers issued before June 25 2011. See https://www.ssa.gov/employer/randomization.html

Of course, this is cold comfort for adults today whose SSNs were issued around the time of their birth.

So, everyone above the age of 16 that wasn't a naturalized citizen/resident? I feel like most of them would have credit scores.

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