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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT - Living privacy (was: Transgender Change)
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:29:31 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050704025732.03f72368@pop.sprynet.com>


I would let this go. <G> but if I find a bank that demands a mother's maiden
name, I am going to demand they look in their records and tell me my great
grandmother's mother's maiden name. If they have this great genealogical
database, they ought to know that one fact, but since no one in the family
does... well you get the idea.

Teresa Ghee Elliott All links start with
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery and then add

Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries: see above

TMG sentence structures: /TMG.html

Descendants of James Edde of Bedford County, TN /EDDE/index.htm

.

4. It is incredibly simple to defeat the "mother's maiden name" threat.
Simply tell every institution with which you deal, that your mother's maiden
name is "Superman" or "Mordor" or "Qwertyuiop". Anything you can remember,
but that an evildoer can't find out about you because it is not a fact
*about* you at all. *DO NOT* accept *ANY* argument that the "real" maiden
name is needed; in fact, if your bank insists, get a different bank. It
means their security policies are at least a decade out of date, and they
are going to lose your money anyway. And I am neither joking nor
exaggerating. The FTC does not go so far as to say to switch banks, but
their recommendations on mother's maiden names agrees with what I have just
told you.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin

a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/




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