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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:52:27 PST8
From: Butch Langel <butch@fyrelizard.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: OT - Identity Theft

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On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:41:18 PST8
Peter Skye wrote:

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> It gets even more scary when you consider all children must be issued a ss# at birth. That number will follow them thru their school years.....what an open source of information for the asking!

> Larry Tawa wrote:
> >
> > I was asked to verify my identity "please give
> > the last four of your social security number"
>
> I wonder what they were verifying?
>
> For background info, everyone's SS# is widely available as I've learned
> recently. You can buy anybody's credit report and SS# online for $25 if
> you also have their birth date; also, if they have a criminal record
> (including drunk driving) then the SS# is almost certainly available as
> part of the public record at the courthouse.
>
> So you also need to protect your birth date. That's not easy; if
> someone knows your city of birth then your birth record is easily looked
> up online.
>
> You won't get _my_ SS# because I don't have a criminal record or any
> arrests and you don't have my birth date or city! :)))
>
> Maybe you don't even have my real name . . .
>
> - Peter
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