From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Aug 22 11:32:10 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 k7MHWAjb012620; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:32:10 -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 k7MHW5tj010106 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:32:05 -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 k7MEq2FI012771 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:52:02 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7MEq2eu012770 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:52:02 -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 k7MEowFI012689 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:50:58 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7MHUplD012006 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:30:51 -0600 X-Envelope-From: nobody Tue Aug 22 11:30:51 2006 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7MHUpda011989 for ROOTS-M; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:30:51 -0600 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 k7KFsWjb020838 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:54:32 -0600 Received: from imo-d04.mx.aol.com (imo-d04.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.36]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7KFsOvj027768 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:54:27 -0600 Received: from RoMagic@aol.com by imo-d04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.6.) id e.318.8e702ac (58550) for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:54:14 -0400 (EDT) From: RoMagic@aol.com Message-ID: <318.8e702ac.3219dfa5@aol.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:54:13 EDT Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Stolen Identity? To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5031 X-Spam-Flag: NO 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 It never hurts to check your credit history once a year with the three bureaus listed...better to be safe than sorry, yeah? Every once in a while I will get a call for my dad who died four years ago, at my phone number...how they got the info, could be via the web (have you seen the website _www.melissadata.com_ (http://www.melissadata.com) ? lots of info to be had there!)...did you have any mail forwarded to your address? I sometimes get mail for my mother (mostly life insurance info oddly enough) at my address, I have lived here 9 years, my mother died 20 years ago. The only thing I can figure is that when my old post office box was closed and that mail forwarded to me here something must have come to the box addressed to my mother that had the "address correction requested" so the post office sent the new address (my address) to the person/company the letter was from. Magazines and catalogs do that to update their databases. From there it can easily get onto mailing lists. I think if it were really a stolen identity you would be receiving bills for credit cards and such that you know your dad didn't have, not something from a political party. It sounds more like somewhere along the way your address and phone number got connected to his name and sold onto mailing lists. On 8/16/06, George Rambuss wrote: > 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 > >