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To: MineralMan
I notified him of his risk by printing a little note out on his printer from my notebook.

lolz.

Have always wanted to print out the file documents named "confidential" or "private" that people leave in their file-sharing folders and mail 'em to the addresses mentioned therein.

17 posted on 07/10/2006 11:54:28 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

"Have always wanted to print out the file documents named "confidential" or "private" that people leave in their file-sharing folders and mail 'em to the addresses mentioned therein."

Yup.

I have a little story. I had a fax machine hooked up to a dedicated line for years. Then, one day, I came to work to find hundreds of pages of faxes on the floor.

It seems that a local real estate office had a new fax number that was the same as mine, except for two interposed digits.

I called the realtor and explained what had happened. He got really, really angry with me, and accused me of hijacking his faxes. I explained that I had had that number for 10 years and he had had his for a very short time. He still blustered, then asked me to deliver the faxes I had received to him. I explained that he could come get them, and bring a new 500' roll of thermal fax paper, too.

This whole thing went on for a few weeks. Turns out one of his desk clerks was dyslexix and kept writing their fax number down wrong on outgoing faxes.

I finally ended the nonsense. One day, a complete loan application showed up on my fax machine. SS#s, credit card numbers, dates of birth, and all that jazz for a couple who was applying for a loan.

So, I called the customer, briefly explained what had happened and suggested that they come get their paperwork and speak to the realtor.

Oddly enough, I never got another fax like that again.


22 posted on 07/10/2006 12:03:02 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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