[Katrina-IT-Volunteers] phone numbers for FEMA id may be bad idea

[David DeMaris]

Phone number as ID/password scares me - sad to say there seem to be 
people trying to take advantage of the government revenue stream, 
insurance, etc.   If they could just put numbers from the phone book of 
flooded wards/parishes in, scammers could probably get in and change 
information like the address to receive benefits, etc.

On Sep 9, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Gemar, Edward wrote:
> transferring it to one of these.  Also, when possible I was having
> people use numbers (their phone number of SSN) for Id and Password
> information when signing up for FEMA etc. because there is no risk of
> problems with mixing up lower/upper case letters when doing this.  I
> worked with a person last night who did have all of their info written
> down, but they had gotten the case wrong so we had to try many
> combinations of upper/lower case, but it finally worked.
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