www.NetSpend.com

You can get a card from www.netspend.com. There are other cards out there that allow you to add funds from Western Unions or MoneyGram locations for a fee, but they ask for SSN, though sometimes they don’t verify it.

Anyhow, the downside to stored value cards is there is no way to deposit a CHECK into the account. I recently received a check from my insurance company for about $2800 issued from Bank Of America, it took me 3 Bank Of America’s and talking to several branch managers before I found one who would cash my check for me, the other 2 banks told me the check was ‘over their limit’ for non-customers.

I advise you to try local bank branches to open up checking accounts without SSN. The thing that bugs me is there is no law requiring a Bank to obtain a SSN for non-interest bearing checking accounts, there is no interest being acrued thus they don’t have to report to the IRS. My bank wont even open an account for me using 2 forms of ID,www.netspend.com one of which is the credit card issued by their bank! Another thing that’s hard to deal with is Credit Bureaus, once they have your SSN, it’s pretty much there for life, however I did manage to social engineer TransUnioninto removing my SSN claiming the one on file was inaccurate, and as a privacy advocate I do not give out my SSN, but under the Fair Credit and Reporting Act, they are required by law to remove inaccurate information. They agreed to remove it ‘temporarily’ as my SSN would be reported to them by my creditors they claimed, little did they know my creditors don’t know what my SSN and so I now have credit and a credit report with no SSN attatched to it! www.netspend.com

As I mentioned California CPUC does not regulate cellular companies so it is difficult to obtain a cellphone without an SSN because almost every carrier requires this information to ‘run a credit check’ — or so they claim. I did however convince an AT&T wireless salesperson to run my credit using the SSN 000-00-0000 and I got approved, and the inquiry showed up on my Transunion report. So it is possible to get a cellphone through AT&T wireless without a SSN, though it may be hard to convince the salesperson that they don’t need your SSN to run credit.