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IP: 2 on credit-card cartel can release your info to ANYone
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:33:32 -0400
From: "Eric D. Williams" <eric () infobro com> To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: RE: Re: credit-card cartel can release your info to ANYone Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:59:48 -0400 Organization: Information Brokers, Inc. X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 While the alert in that message is indeed suspect the phone number given appears legitimate. In the August 2001 edition of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine <www.kiplinger.com>: "Call 888-567-8688 and ask the credit bureaus to block your credit files from being screened for preapproved offers of credit." That's the same phone no. and information that appeared in the forwarded email message. Eric Williams, Pres. Information Brokers, Inc. Phone: +1 202.889.4395 http://www.infobro.com/ Fax: +1 202.889.4396 For More Info: info () infobro com PGP Public Key http://new.infobro.com/KeyServ/EricDWilliams.asc Finger Print: 1055 8AED 9783 2378 73EF 7B19 0544 A590 FF65 B789
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 16:09:27 -0700 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: "Robert M. McClure" <rmm () unidot com> Subject: Re: IP: Re: credit-card cartel can release your info to ANYone Dave, the problem is not what you can read into the fine points of the law. The problem is that many banks, insurance companies, credit bureaus play fast and loose with the letter of the law and even faster and looser with the spirit of the law. I know for a personal fact that credit reporting agencies are leaky as a sieve, and that *none* of our good government operations seem to care. Bob For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/
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