US-CA11 · jury_instructions
11th Cir. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) O115
Falsely Representing a Social Security Number
42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(B)
It’s a Federal crime for anyone to intentionally deceive someone else by
falsely representing a Social Security number to be the person’s own.
The Defendant can be found guilty of this crime only if all the following
facts are proved beyond a reasonable doubt:
(1) the Defendant knowingly represented to someone that the Social
Security number described in the indictment had been assigned to
the Defendant by the Commissioner of Social Security;
(2) at the time, the Social Security number had not been assigned to
the Defendant; and
(3) the Defendant intended to deceive someone in order to [state
purpose as alleged in the indictment].
To “act with intent to deceive” simply means to act deliberately for the
purpose of misleading someone. But the Government does not have to prove that
someone was actually misled or deceived.
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- ca11.uscourts.gov
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- 2026-08-20
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- criminal-2025-09
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