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<p>[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 348710, member: 4703"]Identity theft is a real problme, but let's not get paranoid about this sort of common postal "foulup".</p><p><br /></p><p>In the first place, the problem undoubtedly originated in the postal system, not the magazine. I get at least a couple of pieces of mail for other people in my PO box every year, and it's certainly not unheard of for me to get some of a neighbor's mail, or for a neighbor to get some of mine, when a delivery person makes a mistake.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the second place, if you found the phone number that easily, my guess is it's a listed number, in which case the gentlemen has himself put all the information you have out for public consumption. In general ID theft requires a birth date, a social security number, a credit card number, or some other type of financial account number or personal information, etc. If just name/address/phone number were enough, everyone in the phone book would be at high risk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hontonai, post: 348710, member: 4703"]Identity theft is a real problme, but let's not get paranoid about this sort of common postal "foulup". In the first place, the problem undoubtedly originated in the postal system, not the magazine. I get at least a couple of pieces of mail for other people in my PO box every year, and it's certainly not unheard of for me to get some of a neighbor's mail, or for a neighbor to get some of mine, when a delivery person makes a mistake. In the second place, if you found the phone number that easily, my guess is it's a listed number, in which case the gentlemen has himself put all the information you have out for public consumption. In general ID theft requires a birth date, a social security number, a credit card number, or some other type of financial account number or personal information, etc. If just name/address/phone number were enough, everyone in the phone book would be at high risk.[/QUOTE]
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