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Contact UsCall the office at 866-931-7103. More InformationMore information regarding Social Security benefits can be found online. The Human Services Directory is a database listing of agencies that provide emergency and non-emergency human services assistance to Seneca County residents. It is maintained by the Seneca County Division of Human Services and is only as accurate as of the updates provided by the directory participants. This is a simple searchable text listing containing no graphics. You can apply for, replace, or modify your Social Security card. You also can find out how to get a different Social Security number. Social Security cards are free. There is no cost to apply. If you are requesting a new card, you must apply by mail or in person at a Social Security office. If you need a replacement card and are a U.S. citizen age 18 or older with valid state-issued identification, you can also apply online using your "my Social Security account." Find a Social Security Office. Get a new Social Security number. Required Documents for Applying for a Social Security Card Your application for a Social Security number and card must include two personal identification documents:
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Your application in person or by mail must include the original ID (not a photocopy). Your original ID will be returned to you. Here are the taxes withheld from the lottery winnings of U.S citizens or residents within the state of New York who present their Social Security number when claiming their prize. Residents of the cities of New York and Yonkers are subject to additional local tax withholdings. New York Lottery tax withholdings on winnings for non-U.S. citizens or non-residentsWinningsTaxPercentageOver $600State Tax10.9%Federal Tax30%Total: 40.9% Phone numbers often contain clues to the owner's identity and can bring up a lot of data during an OSINT investigation. Starting with a phone number, we can search through a large number of online databases with only a few clicks to discover information about a phone number. It can include the carrier, the owner's name and address, and even connected online accounts. While a phone number may not seem like much information to give out, an OSINT researcher can quickly discover information that ties a phone number to a variety of other clues. The data can be used to detect whether a phone number is a throwaway VoIP number used to hide the owner's identity or a cell phone belonging to a real person. In the event of buying something online or replying to an apartment ad, this information is incredibly useful to know. For a hacker, the ability to turn a phone number into multiple connected online accounts, email addresses, or screen names makes it a perfect starting point for bigger things to come. A quick scan to discover the carrier of a phone number can provide everything a hacker needs for a well-crafted phishing email pretending to be from the victim's carrier. Once a hacker can identify other details about the target that may be attached to the phone number, it's easy to identify the weakest link and attack the target using whatever information that's dug up.
Editor's note: The OSINT Tools by Mike Bazzel featured in this article was taken down from his website due to increased DDoS-style attacks, as well as DMCAs and cease-and-desists from some of the tools included. Phoneinfoga will still work in this guide, but for the others, you can try using each company's individual tool instead. You can see how it used to work, however, in the video and text below. OSINT Tools for Phone NumbersFor quickly searching through phone numbers, we can use both command-line and browser-based tools. Command line tools give the advantage of simple operation and greater customization but require you to have Python installed and updated. Today, we'll be using a tool called Phoneinfoga to quickly determine if the number is associated with a disposable phone number.
One of the best resources for OSINT is Mike Bazzel's IntelTechniques website, which we'll also be focusing on here. This website contains several custom tools that Bazzel had organized to be useful for researchers. Many of these tools are already in Buscador OS, a virtual machine that can be run to provide an operating system geared towards OSINT investigations.
The ScenarioAs an example, we'll take a sample business listing from a classified ad. How would we verify this? If the ad claims to be from a licensed professional, could we track down a license attached to the phone number? A simple reverse phone number lookup may find something, but to see the real data, you have to dig deeper and utilize more than just one reverse number lookup tool. Step 1: Install PhoneinfogaTo supplement the information you find online later, you can use a Python tool called Phoneinfoga, which allows you to search for details about phone numbers from the command line. To use Phoneinfoga, open a terminal window and enter the following four commands one by one or at the same time.
Next, you can run the program with the options displayed in the help file.
Step 2: Search a Phone Number with PhoneinfogaTo search for a phone number, we just need to add the -n flag and then whatever number we want to search for. If you use the --recon argument, it will perform an advanced search.
Sometimes, this tool can get you temporarily blacklisted from Google searches because of the way it's programmed. It's annoying but easily resolved with a Google abuse exemption, detailed at the end of the video above.
As you can see above, there are lots of links to dive into, and right away the name and business associated with the phone number are available in the output. Step 3: Access the IntelTechniques OSINT PortalNow, let's concentrate on the web tools that are free on Bazzel's website since they're a little bit easier to work with than with the command line tool above. To follow along, you can go to inteltechniques.com/menu.html, then click on the "Telephone Number" tab. A submenu appears when you click on "Telephone Number," and you'll need to select the "Telephone Search Tool" to bring up the page that will allow us to search many tools at once. As you can see, it's a healthy mix of people-searching tools, phonebook directories, scam reporting websites, and social media connections. These are free, public resources combined into one easy-to-use search tool, allowing anyone with a browser and internet connection to begin researching who is on the other end of a phone number. We can input a number into each tool one by one, but the easiest way is to enter the number into the field at the top, and click "Populate All."
Step 4: Search a Phone Number on IntelTechniquesIn the search tool, enter the number into the field next to the "Populate All" button, then click the button to auto-populate the number into the rest of the fields. Next, select "Submit All" under the list of services to run all searches on the phone number. All of the services will open up in different tabs or pop-ups with the search already submitted (you may need to allow pop-ups in your browser). Step 5: Search Results for Clues & PatternsNow, check out some of the resources loaded from the search. Here, some of the people searching services have turned our phone number into a name. Along with the person's name is a startling amount of information, the most important of which is a location and address for us to tie together further details. We found a lot of results with the name, making a pretty strong likelihood that this is the person behind our ad. So how would we prove they are a licensed professional? Step 6: Locate Information That Can Be VerifiedOn another search site result, we can see the name of a business associated with the phone number, which is what we're looking for! If we can tie the name of a company and the name we've found associated with the number, we can look up a source we trust, like a state listing of active businesses, to determine whether this is a real business. Here, we have a name, address, and business name; everything we need to verify whether a business exists. Step 7: Verify with Primary Source DataTo check out the information we found, we should look for some primary source information that backs up our discovery. In our case, the best database to search is the Department of State business database for the state we discovered the business in. Here, we were able to pull a valid business listing, one which matches the address we previously found. It appears the person behind the online advertisement is honest — they are a licensed professional after all. Phone Numbers Can Tie Everything TogetherAs a starting point, a phone number can provide everything you need to locate information about a target. With tools like Phoneinfoga, you can quickly discover whether a phone number is a throwaway or a legitimate number. If the number is real, the IntelTecniques website tools can piece together clues to build a picture of the person behind the phone number, sometimes quite literally. With the right tools, a single phone number can lead you from clue to clue, piecing together everything you need to learn about a target. I hope you enjoyed this guide to using phone numbers in an OSINT investigation! If you have any questions about this tutorial on phone number recon, or if you have a comment, ask below or feel free to reach me on Twitter @KodyKinzie.
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