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From: "Richard F. Robinson" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] NBC News Story on 7 Jsan 2004
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:33:37 -0500
In-Reply-To: <031601c3d5e2$967c0060$6401a8c0@alviecomputer>


Alvie,

People can get around most anything these days. I think the problem in many
cases is that people who use stolen identities to buy merchandise or get
loans, for example, are not screened enough. In the case of loans, mentioned
on the newscast, a simple check of the SSDI or other available databases
might have determined that the person who supposedly signed the loan papers
was actually dead.

Dick

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alvie L. Davidson [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:26 AM
To:
Subject: [APG] NBC News Story on 7 Jsan 2004

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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