Businesses Facilitating 'Identity Theft'

richlevy · 10-02-2004, 02:45 PM

I would like to take the opportunity to publicly rant again about the selective service. They sent a reply postcard asking for my son's social security number. Of course, if you wanted to, you could mail it back in an envelope, assuming you wanted to provide your own envelope and stamp.

How many 18-year-olds just fill it out and send it back. So because of a government agency, hundreds of thousands of postcards with names and social security numbers are floating through the mail.

Stupid.

xoxoxoBruce · 10-02-2004, 06:07 PM

One of my ex’s worked for a collection agency for a short time. Boy, did I get an education.

I got a call one day from a guy that frantically needed to contact my neighbors at XXX address, because their nephew was in an accident. Did I have their number?
Nope.

Do you know their name?
Nope.

Do you know where they bank, is there a bank in the neighborhood?
Nope.

You know, you shure don’t know much, do you?
Nope.

I think you’re pretty stupid!
Smart enough not to tell you anything. :p

Cyber Wolf · 10-02-2004, 08:03 PM

That's entertaining...calling with the premise that someone's nephew was in an accident and wanting to know their bank as a means of contacting them. That's a laugh and a half.

10-02-2004, 02:45 PM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I would like to take the opportunity to publicly rant again about the selective service. They sent a reply postcard asking for my son's social security number. Of course, if you wanted to, you could mail it back in an envelope, assuming you wanted to provide your own envelope and stamp. How many 18-year-olds just fill it out and send it back. So because of a government agency, hundreds of thousands of postcards with names and social security numbers are floating through the mail. Stupid. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

10-02-2004, 06:07 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	One of my ex’s worked for a collection agency for a short time. Boy, did I get an education. I got a call one day from a guy that frantically needed to contact my neighbors at XXX address, because their nephew was in an accident. Did I have their number? Nope. Do you know their name? Nope. Do you know where they bank, is there a bank in the neighborhood? Nope. You know, you shure don’t know much, do you? Nope. I think you’re pretty stupid! Smart enough not to tell you anything. :p __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-02-2004, 08:03 PM	#3
Cyber Wolf As stable as a ring of PU-239 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On a huge rock covered in water, highly advanced moss and 7 billion parasites Posts: 1,264	That's entertaining...calling with the premise that someone's nephew was in an accident and wanting to know their bank as a means of contacting them. That's a laugh and a half. __________________ "I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens

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