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From: mark@utzoo.UUCP (mark bloore)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: computer crime for everyman
Message-ID: <3348@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Nov-83 13:56:02 EST
Article-I.D.: utzoo.3348
Posted: Sat Nov 19 13:56:02 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Nov-83 13:56:02 EST
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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the following is from a letter to the editor in this morning's 
globe and mail (toronto):

	The other day i received one of the strangest phone calls ever.
	It seemed, according to this all-too-pleasant voice, that my
	beautiful 5-year-old son had been "eradicated" - he was one of
	the "3 percent lost in the computer".
	... she felt compelled to explain to me that, although she had
	found the necessary information in a filing cabinet, she was
	going to have to "create" my son.
	... nor was I even faintly sympathetic to this person's
	predicament.

it sounds to me as though someone has found a way to commit computer 
fraud without having to use a computer.  has anyone else run across 
this trick?


				mARK bLOORE
				univ of toronto
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