From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Aug 17 12:46:35 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 k7HIkZjb008150; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:46:35 -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 k7HIkYBu003971 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:46:34 -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 k7HG6lFI013474 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:06:48 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7HG6l1M013473 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:06:47 -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 k7HFD8FI013308 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:13:08 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7HHqhxW003365 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:52:43 -0600 X-Envelope-From: drewsmithtpa@gmail.com Thu Aug 17 11:52:43 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 k7HHqhjb003356 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:52:43 -0600 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.236]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7HHqinG028152 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:52:44 -0600 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so176301qba for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:52:44 -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:x-mimeole:thread-index; b=Q4DpG8gOtor+3UBI/Uw/4hqAdDnVjQ60bUk4BoCsvdqlrvzyfl6MFZnGnDQQXUNy6atr2geOk7kyLCTG8uhbJ2MAh7cNH9fsecrM0IdVB9mOtpLu72eG66WDk6794IsnhXLvpZ7GIknYIdpVzfPMZErY4Hyb0T46qxdHtRIc3bM= Received: by 10.70.19.2 with SMTP id 2mr366939wxs; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:52:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Drew ( [70.126.18.234]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h20sm2509008wxd.2006.08.17.10.52.43; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:52:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Drew Smith" To: Subject: FW: [ROOTS-L] Stolen Identity? Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:52:43 -0400 Message-ID: <006d01c6c225$f0ef9750$640fa8c0@Drew> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Thread-Index: AcbCHpt7bxMu8xD9QsuiunRJg8cLIAAB0qeA 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 In case this response didn't make it back to the original list. -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Marrs [mailto:bmarrs@bcmvco.net] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:05 PM To: 'Drew Smith' Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Stolen Identity? When my mother in law died, she was living in Montana. She had never lived in Idaho. About six months after she died we began to receive mail addressed to her. The mail was from a couple of magazines she had subscribed to, the phone company and a credit card company. The magazines and the phone company had been notified of her death. A lot of companies do not pay attention to the reason for termination of services. There is also the selling of customer names to other companies. It took over 6 years to get the mail stopped. How these companies knew our address I am not certain. The bills had been paid at the time of her death. We used her checking account not ours. We did not leave a forwarding address at the post office so go figure. Barbara Boise, Idaho From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Drew Smith Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:02 PM To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Stolen Identity? 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