Is there a Social Security Number reserved for testing examples

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Is there a canonical  test SSN  that is used by convention  so is understood by all who see it that it is not a real SSN

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Numbers from 987-65-4320 to 987-65-4329 are reserved for use in advertisements

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If your testing requires pulling quasi-real credit reports from the bureaus  the inactive SSNs of other answers won t work and you ll need designated test numbers  I found this site Which appears to contain test social security numbers with associated test names and credit card numbers  Transunion has a test environment you can link and send data to  including associated dummy credit reports  Sending a SSN to them with certain numbers in certain positions will automatically route the inquiry to their test environment Other credit bureaus will have similar systems in place

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I used this 457-55-5462 as testing SSN and it worked for me  I used it at paypal sandbox account  Hope it helps somebody

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To expand on the Wikipedia-based answers   The Social Security Administration  SSA  explicitly states in this document that the having  000  in the first group of numbers  will NEVER be a valid SSN     http   www socialsecurity gov employer stateweb htm   I d consider that pretty definitive   However  that the 2nd or 3rd groups of numbers won t be  00  or  0000  can be inferred from a FAQ that the SSA publishes which indicates that allocation of those groups starts at  01  or  0001     http   ssa-custhelp ssa gov cgi-bin ssa cfg php enduser std adp php p faqid 87   But this is only a FAQ and it s never outright stated that  00  or  0000  will never be used   In another FAQ they provide  http   www socialsecurity gov employer randomizationfaqs html a0 6  that  00  or  0000  will never be used   I can t find a reference to the  advertisement  reserved SSNs on the SSA site  but it appears that no numbers starting with a 3 digit number higher than 772  according to the document referenced above  have been assigned yet  but there s nothing I could find that states those numbers are reserved  Wikipedia s reference is a book that I don t have access to  The Wikipedia information on the advertisement reserved numbers is mentioned across the  web  but many are clearly copied from Wikipedia  I think it would be nice to have a citation from the SSA  though I suspect that now that Wikipedia has made the idea popular that these number would now have to be reserved for advertisements even if they weren t initially   The SSA has a page with a couple of stories about SSN s they ve had to retire because they were used in advertisements samples  maybe the SSA should post a link to whatever their current policy on this might be     http   www ssa gov history ssn misused html

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Please look at this document  http   www socialsecurity gov employer randomization html  The SSA is instituting a new policy the where all previously unused sequences are will be available for use   Goes into affect June 25  2011    Taken from the new FAQ   What changes will result from randomization   The SSA will eliminate the geographical significance of the first three digits of the SSN  currently referred to as the area number  by no longer allocating the area numbers for assignment to individuals in specific states  The significance of the highest group number  the fourth and fifth digits of the SSN  for validation purposes will be eliminated  Randomization will also introduce previously unassigned area numbers for assignment excluding area numbers 000  666 and 900-999  Top  Will SSN randomization assign group number  the fourth and fifth digits of the SSN  00 or serial number  the last four digits of the SSN  0000   SSN randomization will not assign group number 00 or serial number 0000  SSNs containing group number 00 or serial number 0000 will continue to be invalid

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There are multiple number groups and some particular numbers that will never be allocated    Numbers with all zeros in any digit group  000-xx-         -00-         -xx-0000   Numbers with an area group  first three digits  of 666 or any of 900-999  Numbers that have been misused in any way  such as the well known 078-05-1120    Consider using one of these  the obviously invalid 000-00-0000 would be a good one IMO     Answer has been updated to provide source information beyond Wikipedia and remove information that is no longer accurate after the SSA made its randomization change in mid 2011

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all zeros would probably be the most obvious that it wasn t a real SSN

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