How powerful is the subconscious mind?

Was tehre any evidenece to suggest the person merely forgot a digit in their SSN ?
 
Bob,

What happened to the client? Was the client actually arrested or charged with fraud? If the client was NOT charged with fraud, we should ignore the fact that the client is trying to commit fraud. Otherwise, you risk fooling yourself into thinking you have the Amazing Ability to detect a fraud.

Simple Possibilities:
(1) If client is indeed charged and sentenced for fraud. It is logical to think the fraudster had chosen an SSN that is near to his own real SSN. Just in case the attempted fraud is discovered, s/he could always claim it is a mistake.

(2) If the client is honest and not sentenced as a fraudster. We should give him the benefit of the doubt that it is just a genuine mistake. Unless he is totally deranged, we could reasonably expect the SSN he gave to be close to his real SSN.

Let me guess... this client was NOT charged for fraud.
 
Jyera said:
Bob,

What happened to the client? Was the client actually arrested or charged with fraud? If the client was NOT charged with fraud, we should ignore the fact that the client is trying to commit fraud. Otherwise, you risk fooling yourself into thinking you have the Amazing Ability to detect a fraud.

Simple Possibilities:
(1) If client is indeed charged and sentenced for fraud. It is logical to think the fraudster had chosen an SSN that is near to his own real SSN. Just in case the attempted fraud is discovered, s/he could always claim it is a mistake.

(2) If the client is honest and not sentenced as a fraudster. We should give him the benefit of the doubt that it is just a genuine mistake. Unless he is totally deranged, we could reasonably expect the SSN he gave to be close to his real SSN.

Let me guess... this client was NOT charged for fraud.
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I don't really understand the logic of your post. I am certainly making no claim of any psychic fraud detection powers or any other woo. In fact, I'm making no claim of any sort. I'm simply asking if it was more likely that this was due to a random uninfluenced mistake or if it was more likely that my subconcious corrected it due to my consistant exposure to the patterns of Social Security numbers. Either way, it sounds as if it was a random occurence and you can rest assured that I am in no jeopardy of believing that I have any psychic ability.

In addition, the Social Security number the client gave me had never been issued by the Social Security Administration. The Social Security number I keyed in by mistake that did reference his name and address belonged to someone who has been dead for over 20 years. His guilt is not determined by whether or not he is charged for this crime. His guilt is in the action itself and I can tell you with absolute certainty, he was attempting to commit fraud.

Edited to remove sentence fragment.
 
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