[105069] in Cypherpunks
RE: Quick, Dear -- Beat Me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Thu Nov 5 12:11:26 1998
In-Reply-To: <000401be087d$55f97aa0$3b8195cf@blanc>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:47:48 -0500
To: <blancw@cnw.com>, <cypherpunks@algebra.com>
From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Reply-To: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
At 12:08 AM -0500 11/5/98, Blanc wrote:
>From Duncan Frissell:
>
>: Protection of "victims" won't work if the new number is
>: reported to the Big Three credit reporting bureaus.
>...................................................
>
>I just went to the bank I do business with this week to open a new account.
>They wanted my social security number, (which they actually already have on
>record), and during a search on her handy database, the Customer Assistance
>clerk informed me that there was another person in Florida using the same
>number.
>
>I don't presently have a credit card, so I'm not worried about losing any cash
>at this time. The clerk gave me a form to send to ChexSystems for a
>consumer
>report and advice to notify the Social Security dept about it. I don't
>really
>want to discuss it with them. Think it would be to my benefit to just
>leave it
>alone? <g> Probbly not.
If they are using your name as well, they could be damaging your
credit rating.
--
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jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather naïve, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
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