How Unique are You?

[Houses4Rent]

I see some gaps i.e. rural births, but I am horrified of the ease of an ID change. Anyway, we check our ID numbers with the data from HA and so far we have not had one which came up wrong in 7 years and hundreds of checks. However, sometimes the surname mismatches in case of marriage/divorce, but those could always be resolved.

[lewskannen]

I see some gaps i.e. rural births, but I am horrified of the ease of an ID change. Anyway, we check our ID numbers with the data from HA and so far we have not had one which came up wrong in 7 years and hundreds of checks. However, sometimes the surname mismatches in case of marriage/divorce, but those could always be resolved.

Yes, changing an ID Number is very, very easy. You simply go to Home Affairs and complete a form requesting to correct your date of birth. They take your fingerprints and attach only one affidavit from a parent or direct family member. Within about 1-4 weeks you have a new identity number.

Secondly, banks, credit bureaus or any other company making use of HA also does not get notified of an identity change. For some reason unknown HA is not allowed to inform any institution. However, if you have a contact within HA they can give you that information. We had a fraud department that checked ID Numbers specifically for identity change, but this was done through a contact within HA.

[HR Solutions]

I've never heard of id changes - and I work a lot with crim checks, ccma checks etc

[lewskannen]

I've never heard of id changes - and I work a lot with crim checks, ccma checks etc

If you do have access to someone within the SAPS CRC or at Home Affairs, remember to ask them about it and include that check in your checks. Also, do check the links I have provided earlier and you will see how big ID changes are.

Like I said, unfortunately, HA is not allowed to give out this information for some reason, but many companies do have access to check on this.

If anyone ever tells you this does not exist, I have my own list of about 10,000 people who we identified changed their IDs. I have both old and new IDs. All of them, without exception, have the same in common: Both IDs are verifying when checked against credit bureaus, all have the same names and surname but different ID numbers, all the old ID numbers have defaults and judgments and the new ID numbers are clean.

Also, like Noseweek revealed, they have a list of 28 700+ people who changed their IDs in one financial year. So, this is very common.