Posted by Mike (WA) on March 22, 2012 at 09:31:41 from (69.10.196.49):
In Reply to: Re: OT nother scam posted by Goose on March 22, 2012 at 08:47:01:
You raise a good point- but it would be much harder for somebody to loot my bank account than to make a bunch of purchases on the internet with my credit card. At least they try to verify at the bank, and mine is a small local bank, "where everybody knows your name." Another argument for getting away from the mega banks, I guess.
I was thinking the other day, though- the standard question when you try to do something by phone on your bank account is mother's maiden name. It would take some time to establish a "database", but you can harvest a lot of mother's maiden names from the obituaries- "Hazel (Poindexter) Cadwallader, daughter of Ezekial Poindexter and Hortense (Ingmarsen) Poindexter, died Tuesday, survived by sons A, B, C and daughter D, brothers E and F, and sisters G, H and I." Bingo, you've got mother's maiden names of her 4 kids and her 5 siblings.
Ditto the relatives of the bride and groom in wedding announcements, and listing of kin in birth announcements. And a bonanza in last night's paper- "2012 Cutest Baby contest- 8 pages of local baby pics, with parents, grandparents and great grandparents listed.
I used to kid my wife about being a conspiracy theorist, but I'm coming over to her side, I think.
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