Posted on 05/23/2006 9:49:17 AM PDT by Grendel9
Personal data, including Social Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans, was stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month after he took the information home without authorization, the department said Monday.
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Monday a.m. at 8:30 I recvd a recorded phone call from Chase saying there was a suspicion of fraud on my credit card. It stated a charge was made to some place in Arizona for $100. I didn't get excited because Sunday I had used that card to order a $138 car for the Grandson from Danbury Mint. I had no idea where Danbury Mint was located. I hung up. About noon I received the same call from Chase. This time there were at least 15 different charges made on the card including my Danbury Mint charge. Clearly, over $1500 had been charged to places as far distant as Vegas, LEBANON!, and point beyond...even Internet gambling sites! Chase knew it was NOT me or the wife since the charges were so foreign to our use of the card. I called Chase back, they absolved me of all the charges, and are sending new cards with different account numbers. I called Danbury Mint and spoke to a supervisor informing him of the problem. We don't ue that particular card very often, but it IS on file with Danbury since I order cars for the grandson several times a year; they would look into it at their end.
Now, I really don't know if some Danbury employee is the culprit or if this SS data theft is in anyway involved. But it does strike me odd that we should be warned to watch our credit card statements, and even before the word is out, I get called by Chase!
The issue I have with this, is that guy that was responsible for losing all of those personal records, will probably get a slap on the wrist and told not to do this again, because he is a government worker.
Reminds me of the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Second Stain."
Nobody can be that dumb to take that information home!
Why did the VA allow this information to be transferred to a CD rom or PC?
BINGO!! Just HAPPENED to be burgled...yeak, right!! Arrest the person that ILLEGALLY brought home a FEDERAL GOVT. COMPUTER!!
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I especially like the way the supposed victum is being sold as a 'career employee' -- make that idiot (therefore unaccountable) gov't worker.
Where else could one obtain millions of SSN/BD, a percentage of which will be dead numbers (no pun intended) ready and waiting for the influx of illegals just waiting to use them.
A rotten set up for which no one will pay.
PUT HIS ASS IN JAIL AND THROW AWAY THE KEY, YOU WATCH THESE NUMBERS WILL START TURNING UP REAL SHORTLY. ONLY YOU'LL HAVE A MEXICAN WITH THE SS# OF JENSON OR SOME OTHER.
IMO you're right!
I'm pushing 80 and they
aren't going to have to
wait that long, despite
the fact I'm in good health!
Worse, I'm Italian and the
name SOUNDS like it could
pass for Mexican! My name
ends in an "O"; many Mexican
names end in an "A."
26.5 million? I can't believe there are that many living veterans. That must mean they have the SS#'s of pretty much all the veterans. I'm glad I just renewed my Equifax credit watch stuff. I agree with the others that said that the VA employee puke that took this data home with him belongs in jail. At the very least they should hook him up to a polygraph.
This is an old Clinton trick- ooops- I didn't realize downloading FBI classified files is illegal....They best be looking in his freezer soon for payoff money
I suspect it will end up being used by some illegal alien or sold to Mexico, like my credit card number. Hopefully, I will eventually be able to salvage my identity and re-establish my perfect credit rating. It may only take another six or seven years.
This guy should be hung.
Can one have thier SSN changed, or are we stuck with it for life?
The only problem with that theory is, if the employee wanted to do something illegal like selling the disk to someone else, then why report it at all? All he had to do was put it on a disk, sell it to his source, and keep quiet.
I think this could have been a "legitimate" burglary, being as he reported it to the police to alert officials of what was at stake.
Stuck. The SSN assigned to
your baby at birth is a life-
time ID. 'Course, if Congress
does get around to issuing
new ID cards, as has been
suggested, we'll all get new
numbers...probably with
DNA/retina ID attached. I
could be long gone before
that!
And remember that the IRS will see an illegal alien drawing from your SSN account as money to you not the illegal and YOU get the tax bill. Of course they won't go after the illegal but they got you by the short & curlys!
Know another easier
way to glean votes
at the polls?
Then he gets a promotion.
The other trick is having classified nuclear data stolen from the DOE, except with the Chicom thieves tipped off to where and how they could do it and not get caught.
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