Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: Commentary About Social Security Numbers in the SSDI

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: Commentary About Social Security Numbers in the SSDI: "In my opinion, any bank that got scammed by this woman deserves what they got. Any bank or credit card company that is too stupid or too incompetent to use an up-to-date list of known dead people to maintain their customer databases deserves to suffer the financial consequences.

Of course, what can we expect from companies that still use one's mother's maiden name for “security purposes?” They presently use publicly-available information (birth records) improperly and then don't use other publicly-available records (the SSDI) to protect their customers' security. Dumb!"