NODE afa8a569Re: SSN database scam?
Jim Byrd <byrd@acm.org>Thu, 19 Sep 1996 05:46:52 +0800
At 01:22 PM 9/18/96 +0200, Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> forwarded:
>Forwarded from www-security mailing list.
[snip]
>Can anybody comment on the item forwarded below my sig file? It claims
>there's a database w/ people's credit card no's etc on it and you have to
>give your name and social security number to get off of it. This strikes
>me as being a scam to get your ssn, but this went around at work and
>people are actually calling and giving it out. I know ssn's aren't really
>as secure as they're supposed to be, but still...
I happen to work for Lexis-Nexis, but I don't speak for the company. Yes,
P-Trak is real, it was recently made available to our customers.
It is NOT a scam to get SSNs. Lexis-Nexis is a large and reputable company,
best-known for its huge legal database system, Lexis. The Nexis side has
news reports from a large variety of sources.
P-Trak originally made SSNs available, but Lexis-Nexis removed this feature
in response to protests.
NODE a2fbc1daRe: SSN database scam?
Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:51:10 +0800
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Jim Byrd wrote:
> At 01:22 PM 9/18/96 +0200, Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> forwarded:
> >Forwarded from www-security mailing list.
> [snip]
>
> >Can anybody comment on the item forwarded below my sig file? It claims
> >there's a database w/ people's credit card no's etc on it and you have to
> >give your name and social security number to get off of it. This strikes
> >me as being a scam to get your ssn, but this went around at work and
> >people are actually calling and giving it out. I know ssn's aren't really
> >as secure as they're supposed to be, but still...
>
> I happen to work for Lexis-Nexis, but I don't speak for the company. Yes,
> P-Trak is real, it was recently made available to our customers.
>
> It is NOT a scam to get SSNs. Lexis-Nexis is a large and reputable company,
> best-known for its huge legal database system, Lexis. The Nexis side has
> news reports from a large variety of sources.
>
> P-Trak originally made SSNs available, but Lexis-Nexis removed this feature
> in response to protests.
Is your information listed in the Lexis-Nexis database?
>
>
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