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Arkhein
The Social Insurance Number (SIN) was created in 1964 to serve as a client account number in the administration of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Canada's varied employment insurance programs. In 1967, Revenue Canada, now called Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), co-opted the SIN and started using it for tax reporting purposes. Since then, things have gotten way out of control.
The SIN is arguably your most valuable identification number and should be closely guarded. A person possessing your SIN can easily apply for a credit card or open a bank account, rent vehicles, equipment, or accommodation -- all in your name and you will be held responsible by authorities. Never use your SIN number as identification except where required by law.
The only legislated uses of the SIN are: Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, your employer for Income Tax reporting, banks (with some exceptions), Social Assistance programs, and a few other government and/or tax related agencies. When in doubt make them prove that you are legally obligated to provide your SIN. Unless an organization can demonstrate that your SIN is required by law, or that no alternative identifier would suffice to complete the transaction, you cannot be denied a product or service on the grounds of your refusal to provide your SIN. Banks don't even require your SIN anymore when you open an account. Since interest rates are so low and service charges are so high, they are finally acknowledging that it more than cancels out any interest you could ever hope to get. You may find some banks that try to insist that you provide your SIN. Be persistent and/or shop around.
Widespread use of the SIN as identification has put many people's personal information and privacy at risk. Computer technology makes it possible to use the SIN to find and match your information from one database to another; thereby facilitating the creation of a detailed profile about you. Of course, if you are using credit/debit cards you are already seriously fucked in that regard.
Indeed, the truly enlightened citizen probably realizes that they should have never applied for a SIN in the first place.
Algorithm
Let's use this fictitious SIN to demonstrate:
046 454 286 < Try substituting your SIN
046 454 286 \ Multiply each top number
121 212 121 / by the number below it..
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086 858 276 < and get this.
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Notice here that 8*2=16, add 1 and
6 together and get 7. If you get a
2 digit # add the digits together.
Add all of these digits together.
0+8+6+8+5+8+2+7+6=50
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If the SIN is valid this # will
be evenly divisible by 10. This
is a 'valid' SIN.
Application
I also wrote a simple SIN validator for the PalmPilot. Requires cbasPad.
Analysis
The first digit of a SIN indicates province of registration.
1 = NB, NF, NS, PE
2 = QC
3 = Not Used? QC?
4 = ON
5 = ON
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6 = AB, MB, SK, NT, NU?
7 = BC, YU
8 = Not Used
9 = Immigrants & other temp SIN's
0 = Not Used
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Furthermore, it seems the second and third digits can be related to the birth-date of the SIN holder, or probably more accurately, the date period in which the SIN was registered. For this analysis I've had to rely on date of birth since most people don't know when they registered for their SIN. (Though the average age of registration seems to be around 17.) (Note: In the case of SIN's starting with 9 I am tracking date of registration.) We can clearly see a pattern in the tables below. SIN's appear to be assigned incrementally by region. More data is still required to complete this analysis and furnish comprehensive tables.
At the present time I have kept the prairie provinces seperated from one another and done the same for the maritimes. Though it is definitely looking like they are treated as groups and I may merge their respective sets of data once I have collected enough to prove this conclusively.
(AB) Alberta
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609 1948-06-26
616 1948-11-06
620 1951-10-07
622 1953-08-16
623 1955-08-08
624 1957-08
624 1957-11
625 1955-09-26
631 1966-05-31
634 1963-08-31
637 1967
637 1968-10-08
638 1967-11-09
639 1972-08-13
639 1973-08-19
640 1968-01-29
640 1971-08-17
641 1968-12-26
642 1969-10-19
642 1972-09-24
642 1974-06-27
644 1975-01-06
644 1977-12-01
645 1974-12-15
645 1976-09-16
645 1977-02-17
647 1978-08-17
648 1980-06-16
648 1982-04-07
649 1983-01-08
650 1980-01
650 1981-11-11
650 1983-01-14
650 1983-12-20
651 1981-10-29
651 1982-10-10
652 1982-04-24
653 1984-11-14
654 1981-06-30
654 1984-01-26
654 1985-04-21
657 1986-03-27
659 1987-08-28
665 1989-11-11
(BC)
British Columbia
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700 1935-08-11
703 1937-01-05
704 1941-08-31
705 1947-10-24
706 1947-09-26
706 1964-66
707 1937-08-30
710 1952
710 1953
710 1968
711 1951-05-25
712 1954
714 1956
716 1959-08-28
717 1958-08-20
718 1962
720 1963-07-07
721 1967-06-16
723 1966-07-28
723 1969
725 1970
725 1971-03-24
726 1972-12
726 1973-10-12
726 1973-11-19
726 1974-07-27
727 1974-12-01
727 1974-12-11
727 1974-12-31
727 1975-03-18
728 1976-03-28
728 1978-02-15
729 1977-01-09
729 1977-05-12
729 1978-07-27
729 1979-07-20
730 1978-08-31
731 1979
732 1980-03-05
732 1981-10-14
733 1982-04-18
733 1982-05-12
734 1980-06-29
734 1982-10-02
734 1983-03-13
734 1983-05-24
736 1982-03-31
736 1983-11-01
736 1984-07-05
737 1984-09-20
737 1990-07-31
739 1985-07-17
739 1986
740 1986-07-06
742 1988
744 1990-05
(MB) Manitoba
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600 1941
604 1943
608 1946-09-10
610 1938-12-13
614 1950-02
615 1943-01-06
619 1950-09-22
621 1953-05-23
622 1954-02-22
623 1953-01-31
623 1953-07
623 1955-01-22
624 1957-11-22
625 1957-05-20
626 1959-12-29
628 1960-12-26
634 1957-07-14
635 1960-06-07
635 1964-02-01
636 1965-01-13
637 1966-02-09
640 1968-12
640 1979-12-18
641 1971-10-25
642 1974-09-04
643 1974-06-13
644 1977-10-29
645 1978-10-01
646 1982-03-07
648 1978-03-15
648 1978-04-03
648 1978-09-28
649 1984-10-17
650 1979-05-14
650 1979-07-29
652 1980-12-09
653 1985-09-19
(NB) New Brunswick
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101 1938-11
106 1938
107 1950-05-16
115 1960-09-06
117 1961-05-05
120 1965-12-14
121 1965-09-14
122 1970-03-14
123 1968-03-18
123 1973-12-17
125 1978-03-31
126 1977-08-19
127 1981-12-17
129 1983-11-22
129 1984-07-23
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(NF) Newfoundland
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112 1954
114 1960-07-23
126 1977-07-12
129 1987-04-21
(NS) Nova Scotia
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107 1949
113 1965
119 1964-11-15
120 1964-08-11
122 1966-05-05
123 1971
124 1975-10-31
125 1978
127 1981-12-04
130 1985-05-12
(NT) NWT
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643 1975-05-16
643 1975-08-30
(NU) Nunavut
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(ON) Ontario
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404 1941-07
406 1936-06-15
409 1943-07-30
423 1946-01-24
425 1944-02-29
425 1946-06
426 1946-07-08
428 1932-08-13
430 1940-03-14
431 1949-05-10
432 1949-01-28
437 1950-05-10
443 1953-09
446 1954
448 1955-04-01
448 1955-09-18
452 1956-07
455 1968-08-12
457 1958-05-21
464 1959-04-10
464 1960
465 1961-03-25
466 1959-01-27
467 1961-02-07
469 1958
471 1960-11-14
472 1970-12-15
475 1960-06-28
475 1962-09-17
479 1973-07
480 1965
482 1965-03-28
482 1967-04-14
484 1967-12-10
486 1970-02-20
486 1970-10-14
487 1969-03-19
487 1972-02-29
488 1971-07-21
489 1970-09-15
490 1962-10-03
490 1970-09-04
490 1971-01-23
490 1972-01-03
493 1972-10-12
495 1974-06-13
495 1975-09-04
495 1975-10-05
496 1972-06-30
496 1972-09-03
496 1975-10-29
498 1974-11-21
498 1975-04-30
499 1976-09-20
500 1975-10
500 1976-08-05
501 1977-01
502 1978-01-10
503 1977-05-13
503 1978-11-22
503 1979-09-20
504 1978-10-03
505 1979-05
505 1979-10-01
505 1979-10-08
505 1980-07-23
505 1980-10-23
506 1978-09-18
506 1980-09-01
509 1981-09
511 1980-08-20
512 1982-03-07
513 1980-09-11
514 1981-07-12
514 1983-04-11
515 1981-05-15
516 1980-08-09
516 1981-08-05
516 1982-09-30
516 1983-09-15
516 1983-10-08
517 1982-12-27
517 1983-01-21
518 1983-05-06
519 1981-10-16
520 1984-02-10
521 1984-11-29
522 1981-11-19
522 1985-12-05
523 1982-03-17
525 1982-11-28
525 1983-07-17
525 1985-05-09
527 1983-02-24
528 1984-08-06
529 1985-02-13
529 1985-09-06
530 1984-07-24
531 1984-05-14
532 1985-02-01
536 1985-08
540 1987-07-08
544 1988-01-07
569 1995-10
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(PE) PEI
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121 1983-05-26
(QC) Quebec
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211 1942-06-06
212 1937-12-08
227 1949-09-20
230 1950-04-02
232 1951-10-12
233 1951-08-05
234 1968-10-19
240 1955-08-10
241 1958-02-22
246 1961-04-28
247 1958-09-13
252 1963-10
254 1961-05-15
258 1963-11-25
259 1963
263 1968
270 1973-05-29
271 1975-10-18
272 1974-06-02
273 1977-01-18
274 1978-08-11
276 1980-05
279 1980-05-31
279 1980-09-25
280 1981-10-30
281 1982-02-17
282 1982-07-13
284 1981-10-19
285 1984-05-25
286 1983-06-04
289 1984-10-30
291 1985-07-04
291 1985-09-06
291 1986-07-27
(SK) Saskatchewan
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602 1944
606 1946-02
618 1948
619 1949-05-08
632 1963
632 1969-10-11
639 1968-11-25
640 1969-12-04
640 1971-11
641 1973
643 1973
647 1981-08-23
647 1983-11-24
650 1980-10-21
651 1982-11-24
651 1984-10-27
654 1983-12-02
656 1983-02-06
658 1987-11-17
(YU) Yukon
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(9XX) Temp SIN's
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919 2005-08
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A reader (who should probably remain anonymous) sent in this excellent spreadsheet which shows the average age for a given 3-digit SIN prefix based on data gleaned from a database to which the reader had access.
I would like to thank everyone who has contributed data in an effort to further this project. It has certainly helped answer some questions. Everyone I have spoken to, even government employees at the provincial and federal levels, has told me that there is absolutely no correlation between the SIN and birth-date or date of registration. I think it is very clear now that there is a direct correlation and that a person's age can be fairly accurately estimated based on their SIN.
A lot of data is still needed to finish the above tables, so if you havn't submitted the first 3 digits of your SIN along with province of registration and date of birth, please . Thanks.
Abuse
There are almost 4 million more active SINs than there are people in Canada. Opportunities for SIN abuse are numerous and include fraudulently obtaining government benefits, insurance, and credit cards. These are also some of the reasons why, if you're going to play the SIN game, you shouldn't divulge your SIN to anyone but your employer and the tax-man.
Methods for aquiring SINs include:
- Assumimg the name of someone deceased who has not been recorded as dead in the SIN registry. According to the SIN registry, over 300,000 dead Canadians are still alive.
- Assuming a living persons identity.
- Using a false birth certificate to obtain one.
- Temporary SINs issued to foreign students and other non-permanent residents.
To make matters worse (or better, depending on your angle), SIN fraud investigations carried out by the federal Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC: the same people responsible for the ridiculously inaccurate SIN registry) are weak or non-existant. The maximum penalty for SIN fraud is a $1,000 fine and one year in prison. Though fines of a couple hundred dollars with no prison time are the norm for the few who are actually caught and prosecuted.
Also
The SIN algorithm is commonly known as the LUHN algorithm or the mod-10 algorithm. It also happens to be used to validate Credit Card numbers among other things. The SIN algorithm can be arranged to generate as well as validate. A more accurate and suitable acronym for SIN is "Slave Identification Number". This document and its related links may shed some light on this, or perhaps not. Our slave-masters have crafted one of the most incomprehensible and maze-like shit-piles of verbiage that is designed to confuse us into believing the sweat of our brow is their property. When you apply for a SIN, you become a volunteer slave. When fabricating a SIN it is probably best to start with the first three digits of someone's SIN in the particular province you want, who is in your age group, then build it from that. The Seven Deadly Sins are Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed, and Sloth. These are all inherent to mans basic instincts and therefore impossible to do without. The notion that you will "burn in hell" for committing such "sins" is simply another lie used to imbue you with angst and guilt; another form of psychological terrorism foisted upon us by religions, governments, and other deviant agencies bent on controlling and enslaving all mankind. The Canadian government uses the same authentication algorithm on many, if not all, of its "unique" numbers. It is used for employer account numbers, trust numbers, Income Tax Filer identification (your H&R Block e-file rep), and the first nine digits of the Business Number (BN). When there are letters in the identification number the following table is used to convert the letters to numbers:
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
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