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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9069)	6/5/2006 4:14:44 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Peter, I get a little antsy about identity theft. Not that I have any money that would be easy to get to, but just the idea concerns me. This is beginning to get recognized by financial businesses, and more precautions are being initiated. Discover Card has come up with a good thing. A person can sign up for their free garbled, and incorrect account numbers, so the when they buy online and come to the page requesting credit card information, one can click on an icon given by DC, and a window will pop up asking if the person wants help. If he says yes, Discover will take over the filling out of that page, and the card number is known only to them, and cannot be used by anyone else. The card holder has to enter his user name, and password, before Discover will do anything. To make it even safer, the account number is never the same on other transactions. If the wrong person tried to use one of those numbers, they would know he was the wrong person, and probably could find out who he is, and turn him in the authorities. That, however, is not any cure for the information floating in the air.