How to Find Someone Using Their SSN
- 1). Register for the Social Security Number Verification Service. If you’re hiring a new employee and are looking to verify who she is, you can search for her using the social security number she gave you at the United States Social Security Website. Complete the registration form online and select a password. Once your identity has been verified, you will be given a User ID, which you can use to request an activation code, which will be mailed to your employer.
- 2). Use the Social Security Number Verification Service. Once the activation code has been mailed to your employer you can login using your User ID, the password you created and the activation code that was mailed to you. You may check 10 numbers a day for immediate results or upload a file of 250,000 names for overnight results.
- 3). Hire a private investigator. To verify an unknown person using only a social security number, you may need to hire a private investigator. PI services have access to all the high powered tools that go into searching for hard-to-find people and may be your best option for finding someone using just a social security number. Keep in mind that these services can be pricey.
- 4). Join an online people search service. Public record databases do not list social security numbers because of the obvious risk of identity theft, but some online professional people search services do. You can reverse search a social security number as easily as you do phone numbers by joining one of these services. A social security number reverse search costs between $20 and $40 and there is no guarantee that all the information is current or accurate.
- 5). Become a member of a private investigation service. All private investigators belong to services that allows them to search for individuals and you can join these services to for a yearly fee. By joining a membership service you will have access to all the tools that private investigators use at a much more affordable price than hiring your own private investigator. Memberships average around $60 and you will have to conduct your own searches.