From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Aug 16 21:11:30 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7H3BUjb026020; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:11:30 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7H3BS8W011997 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:11:28 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7H0VjFI010886 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:31:45 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7H0VjtC010885 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:31:45 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7GNLuFI010693 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:21:56 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7H21Umj024555 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:01:30 -0600 X-Envelope-From: drewsmithtpa@gmail.com Wed Aug 16 20:01:30 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7H21Ujb024498 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:01:30 -0600 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.239]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7H21Se5017607 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:01:28 -0600 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so55344qba for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:01:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index:x-mimeole:in-reply-to; b=L7fS7DT5VXVSdgUQWTja9ZaDDc/vQCWF+DARooFWJxUaaKRmvcU/uwm0KZ3XjeRXPSyUDIbYeXdJGyHfS+4pjfSDAPdTq4tvbDc+0VzTfNaP+H3bPLqpnbGOKXwuIaUzYIOqhkwQCFJoN5juseWnhFPfMt00Q9/SHIveSPaFFHA= Received: by 10.70.48.15 with SMTP id v15mr1950023wxv; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Drew ( [70.126.18.234]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h7sm1378178wxd.2006.08.16.19.01.28; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:01:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Drew Smith" To: Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Stolen Identity? Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:01:31 -0400 Message-ID: <003b01c6c1a1$0fbc4550$640fa8c0@Drew> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcbBngFz7RLfJgyQQQeWUDHUXSTtNAAAetsA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 In-reply-to: <005501c6c196$b08d8e40$6501a8c0@shithead> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com To me, it sounds like your father might have, at some point before he died, provided your name, address, and phone number as a contact (perhaps an emergency contact?) on some sort of form, and that that information was entered into an address database that incorrectly associated your father's name with your address and phone number. Then your father's name, together with your address and phone number, were sold as part of the entire address database, which was purchased by various organizations (including "South Carolinians for Responsible Government") for their calls and mailings. It seems to me that if your father's identity were fraudulently used, it would be far more likely that your father's name would be associated with some other address and phone number, not with yours. If you're really curious, you might contact the "South Carolinians for Responsible Government" and ask them where they get their addresses from: South Carolinians for Responsible Government 1620 Gervais, Suite B Columbia, SC 29201 Ph. (803) 212-1051 . Fax. (803) 212-1052 Just an idea, Drew Smith > -----Original Message----- > From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com > [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of George Rambuss > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:47 PM > To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ROOTS-L] Stolen Identity? > > My Dad died a little over 2 years ago and yesterday someone > called my home phone looking for my Dad. They asked for him > by his entire name including his middle initial. I was > floored, we have different last names and we live in a > different state. I asked this young man (who spoke broken > English) how did he get my phone number? He replied that he > could not give out that information. I ended the conversation > by hanging up on him. > I had received political flyers in the mail back in May/June > this year addressed to my Dad but I did not follow through. > Actually there was a voter's registration form mailed to my > Dad at my address from the "South Carolinians for Responsible > Government". > I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else? Does it > sound like stolen identity? > > Char