William H. Gates III

Leading digits "539"...what state was he born in?
---guy

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10/29/98

The following information is posted on the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission's (SEC) "EDGAR" database located at:

http://www.sec.gov/edaux/formlynx.htm

In the "Enter a company" box, search on -

     "MICROSOFT CORP"

You'll find the following file -

      Date Filed    Forms    CIK Code     Company Name

     "02-07-1996   SC 13G/A   789019     MICROSOFT CORP"

Click on this link and you'll find the following information -

MAIL ADDRESS:
      STREET 1:               ONE MICROSOFT WAY - BLDG 8
      STREET 2:               NORTH OFFICE 2211
      CITY:                   REDMOND
      STATE:                  WA
      ZIP:                    98052-6399

FILED BY:

      NAME OF REPORTING PERSON

        S.S. or I.R.S. Identification No. of Above Person

        William H. Gates III      Social Security #: 539-60-5125


                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                                  SCHEDULE 13G
                    Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
                               (Amendment No. 7)*
                              MICROSOFT CORPORATION

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531-539 ...Washington
according to http://www.ssa.gov/foia/stateweb.html

BTW - When you look at http://www.ssa.gov/foia/oct98hg.htm
The last two digit group issued for 539 is "39".  And according to
http://www.ssa.gov/foia/ssnweb.html the numbers are not issued in sequence,
but according to an strange method.  The early odds, then the evens, then
the rest of the odd number groups.  Just in case anyone wants to understand
how to detect bogus numbers.

At 12:28 AM 10/30/98 -0500, Information Security wrote:
>Leading digits "539"...what state was he born in?
>---guy
>
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>        William H. Gates III      Social Security #: 539-60-5125

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At 12:28 AM -0500 10/30/98, Information Security wrote:
>Leading digits "539"...what state was he born in?
>


And just to clear up some silly misconception people have.  SSN numbers are 
not indicative of where someone was born.  Only where they applied for a 
SSN number.


Matt <mailto:melliott@itmail.ncsa.uiuc.edu>