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From: "Alvie L. Davidson" <>
Subject: [APG] NBC News Story on 7 Jsan 2004
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 07:26:05 -0500


I don't know how many folks saw one of the leading news stories on NBC evening 7 Jan 2004 about identity theft.
They focused on a group of folks in Atlanta who were scanning newspaper
obituaries and following up by getting data off the internet concerning the
deceased person and then buying from information brokers personal data to buy cars obtain loans in the name of the deceased person. This seems to be going on before anyone has time to fully know the deceased person is actually dead.
The GA State Law Enforcement arrested a large group of people in GA and others were arrested in other states.
Is this going to make newspapers stop putting obituaries in their paper? When do you think the public will no longer be allowed to own a telephone book because it has names and home addresses of lots of people.
I know the databases which I have access to in my business will not arbitrarily sell data to anyone who comes along because we view anyone who is not licensed by Florida as an investigator or who might be practicing lawyer not to be entitled and cannot get the information.
I guess you can put all sorts of rules out there to go by and folks will still side step these rules and do whatever they wish.
By Don Teague
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 6:41 p.m. ET Jan. 07, 2004
This is the story correspondent on NBC.COM

Alvie L. Davidson CGRS
CGRS, Certified Genealogical Record Specialist, is a service mark
of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license
by Board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations.


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