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I suspect they request your credit report with your personal info (if you are a business requesting the report on someone else, you don't need the full SSN) and pull the information from there. Finding a hospital near your address just requires knowing where hospitals are, and those are in public directories.


What I found weird was how out of all the landmarks around where I lived, it picked up on the biggest, the particular hospital in question.

Maybe the question is a standard one, and I happened to add more meaning to it by dumb luck of where I lived.




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