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- From: gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch)
- Subject: Re: How does a PI locate somebody?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.025518.1917@panix.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:55:18 GMT
- References: <2JAN199307371121@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan2.193258.23010@midway.uchicago.edu> <C08zoF.1Cz@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Organization: mydog in exile
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- In article <C08zoF.1Cz@andy.bgsu.edu> sebert@andy.bgsu.edu (kim) writes:
- | ...
- | I often thought that if I wanted to hide I would go to a small town and
- | chech the newspaper archive for some one who died that was about my age
- | and then request a birth cirtificate from the health department. With
- | that you could get a ssn and then even get a drivers license with the
- | story that some one stole your wallet or purse. ...
-
- There are people who do this professionally. That is,
- they search the obituary columns of old newspapers, then
- obtain the birth certificates of the individuals and
- create a sort of identity. The identity can then be
- packaged and sold to a person needing one. The only
- problem with the profession is that so many people are
- doing it that the supply of dead people is running
- out. Consequently the price of new identities is rising
- -- but then, what isn't?
-
- Back in the '70s I read that a minimal identity package
- (birth certificate, driver's license, maybe a few other
- items) could be obtained for four or five hundred dollars.
- I don't know what the fee is these days. But I'm sure
- that at less than the price of a good used car, out of
- sight is just around the corner.
- --
-
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