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To: Slagle who wrote (65477)	6/25/2005 12:29:24 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 74559

I left for a month of R and R in SC and visited some family. So the General has cute phillipine maid - how long has he been married? hehe Yes that marriage is the whole problem. I had a friend explain it to me once, he said shades you can be a dummy and pay big bucks at books a million for the latest Bogle indexing book and all the other great books you wish to read - or you can go to the library and for just a cheap library card check the book out for just a short time to read it and save tons of money. He used this philosophy with marriage, why buy the book when you can just check it out for the short time you want to read it? Getting rid of old books you bought are such a pain, they get old and smelly and dusty and the last time I moved it hurt my back picking up all those thick books. hehe. Alert order eh? Somewhere in some computer that is saved in a database - and therefore some crook is probably looking at it. It's not enough the IT people in INDIA sell your bank account info and Schwab passwords to the slimiest crook - they have found a whole new way to milk the system: yro.slashdot.org Identity Thieves Drain Unemployment Benefit Funds Posted by Zonk on Friday June 24, @11:15AM from the thanks-jerks dept. Makarand writes "According to a News.com.com article, the defrauding of state government unemployment benefit programs is the most underpublicized identity theft crime and the states are not doing much about it. Identity thieves are using stolen social security numbers to file false unemployment claims and collecting benefits because the states have no systems in place to deter fraud. In fact, it is easier to convert stolen identity data into money by filing false unemployment claims than going after the credit card companies." From the article: "File a false unemployment claim and you can receive $400 per week for 26 weeks. Do it for 100 Social Security numbers and you've made a quick $1.04 million. It's tough to make crime pay much better than that."