SS number

Recent court cases are ruling that using a false social security number to get a job or buy a car is not a crime as long as you use your own name. That follows a ruling last year by the U.S. Supreme Court that a Mexican man who gave a false SSN to get a job at an Illinois steel plant could not be convicted under federal identity theft laws because he did not knowingly use another person's identifying number. He used a social security number that was not his but he didn't know if it belonged to someone else. It could have belonged to another person but he did not know if it did or not. This must be back to idea of intent. He didn't intend to use another person's number.