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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 22:49:48 PDT
From: gam@anduin.ocf.llnl.gov (George A Michael)
To: carlson@sisal.llnl.gov, cralle@aimnet.com,
eugene@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov,
paulrupert@earthlink.net, reanderson@llnl.gov,
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Subject: FYI-fraud
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Thought You all might like this Info
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Your name, social security number, current address, previous addresses,
mother's maiden name, birth date and other personal information are now
available to anyone with a credit card through a new Lexis database
called
P-Trax. As I am sure you are aware, this information could be used to
commit credit card fraud or otherwise allow someone else to use your
identity.
You can have your name and information removed from this list by making
a
telephone request. Call (800)543-6862, select option 4 and then option
3
("all other questions") and tell the representative answering that you
wish
to remove your name from the P-trax database. You may also send a fax
to
(513) 865-1930, or physical mail to LEXIS-NEXIS / P.O. Box 933 /
Dayton,
Ohio 45401-0933. Sending physical mail to confirm your name has been
removed is always a good idea.
As word of the existence of this database has spread on the net,
Lexis-Nexis
has been inundated with calls, and has set up a special set of
operators to
handle the volume. In addition, Andrew Bleh (rhymes with "Play") is a
manager responsible for this product, and is the person to whom
complaints
about the service could be directed. He can be reached at the above
800
number. Ask for extension 3385. According to Lexis, the manager
responsible is Bill Fister at extension 1364.
The representative will need your name and social security number to
remove you from the list. I suggest that we inundate these people with
requests to remove our info from the list and forward this e-mail to
everyone we know.
LATER, THIS APPEARED:
They are no longer processing request by phone. All must be sent in
writing or FAXed to a number they'll provide you (sorry, I didn't
write it down, figuring I'd just use the smail-mail route).
Just thought I'd try to save anyone else fighting through the busy
signals.
... NEXT,THIS ARRIVED:
In other words, they want your address so that they can say they've
removed
it. Nice ploy. It could net the addresses of a lot of folks who are NOT
in
their database. (Come to think of it, would it be too far out to
suggest
that a government agency might be looking at the removal requests for
just
this reason?)
... FOLLOWED BY THIS:
whois lexis-nexis
LEXIS-NEXIS (NETBLK-LEXIS-NET) LEXIS-NET 207.24.128.0 -
207.24.143.0
LEXIS-NEXIS (ITCAMBRIDGE-DOM) ITCAMBRIDGE.COM
LEXIS-NEXIS (LEXISNEXIS-DOM) LEXISNEXIS.COM
LEXIS-NEXIS Information Technology, Cambridge
(NSICONSULTING-DOM)
NSICONSULTING.COM
Lexis-Nexis (REED-ELSEVIER-DOM) REED-ELSEVIER.COM
Lexis-Nexis (LEXIS-DOM) LEXIS.COM
Lexis-Nexis (LEXIS-NEXIS-DOM) LEXIS-NEXIS.COM
Lexis-Nexis (LEXIS-NEXISMAIL-DOM) LEXIS-NEXISMAIL.COM
Lexis-Nexis (MEADDATA2-DOM) MEADDATA.COM
Lexis-Nexis (NEXIS-DOM) NEXIS.COM
nslookup www.nexis.com
Name: psweb1.lexis-nexis.com
Address: 192.73.216.200
Aliases: www.nexis.com
>From their web page you can find that the following email addresses
exist
for them, which might server the internet folks better than sending in
snail mail removal requests:
custsrv@prod.lexis-nexis.com Customer Service
pr@prod.lexis-nexis.com Public Relations
webmaster@prod.lexis-nexis.com Presumably someone with some
technical savvy
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