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Web sites selling your cell phone records for just $100
Sun-Sentinel Co. & South Florida Interactive Inc. ^ | January 16 2006 | TED PHILLIPS

Posted on 01/17/2006 12:05:42 PM PST by rit

You may already be a victim of cellular "records rip-off" and not even know it.

Anyone -- a stalker, a jealous lover, a curious employer -- with merely your cell-phone number can visit one of several Web sites, pay around $100, and in a few hours find out whom you've been calling and who's been calling you.

Indeed, the Web site Americablog revealed last week that it successfully obtained the records of Gen. Wesley Clark, the former presidential candidate.

"All we needed was General Clark's cell phone number and our credit card, and 24 hours later we had one hundred calls the general made on his cell phone in November," according to a posting on the site, which said it contacted Clark about its efforts to expose the dangers of the practice, which is in a legal gray area.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: cellphone; nowarrantneeded; web
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To: Emile

I do know what you're up against. we all know people like that. Usually it's best to leave the DUmmies alone.

Just in case, you might remind her though, this is just the beginning of 40 years of Republican 'rule'!


21 posted on 01/17/2006 4:52:06 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who have dementia.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
She'd probably come back with a nasty comment like "Over my dead body".

She keeps threatening to move to Canada in protest, but (just like Alec Baldwin) never follows up.

22 posted on 01/17/2006 6:26:11 PM PST by Emile (Welcome to New Orleans, aka "The Big Chocolate")
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To: rit

Bump


23 posted on 01/25/2006 4:36:12 AM PST by csvset
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