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(Boston Globe) Dumbass Virus leaked social security numbers of unemployed, offering identity thieves chance to get turned down for credit   (boston.com) divider line 20
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Theaetetus [TotalFark]
2011-05-18 01:29:55 PM
Gosh, Subby, you're right. An identity thief would have to be a real idiot to want to impersonate people who pay no taxes and collect unemployment and welfare checks.
 
RandomExcess
2011-05-18 02:19:24 PM
These people tend to be low class people. No need to alert them that their identities were stolen.

/Big Business Sucks.
 
Doctor_TeethMD
2011-05-18 02:19:59 PM
Better than when the government leaks a virus to the unemployed.


/HIV is a man-made virus!!!
//I kid, I kid... it's monkey-made
 
BurnShrike
2011-05-18 02:24:36 PM
Why is there a picture of Jabba the Hutt in that article?
 
Nocens
2011-05-18 02:25:23 PM
In other news:

210,000 illegals have just found employment and been added to Obama's jobs created list.
 
abhorrent1
2011-05-18 02:26:10 PM
WTF is the thing in that picture?
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2011-05-18 02:26:23 PM
Take my identity... please.
 
JackieRabbit
2011-05-18 02:29:03 PM
BillSmith70: Under Clinton & Gore
Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Nice trolling there, buddy. That your has nothing to do with the thread is a nice touch. So you want to blame FDR for the changes that subsequent congresses made to the original SS program? THat's like blaming Jesus for his whacked followers today.

It's just too bad that most of your points are completely wrong.
 
rapidlyfiringneurons
2011-05-18 02:32:41 PM
BurnShrike: Why is there a picture of Jabba the Hutt in that article?

My eyes bled when I clicked the link.

So much for lunch. :-(
 
david1963
2011-05-18 02:32:50 PM
My identity isn't worth stealing, and you Farkers get my opinions for free.

I should start a cult. "Beer improves my intelligence too."
 
Nem Wan
2011-05-18 02:34:49 PM
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're a deadbeat. What'll suck for some of these people is if their credit reports get trashed by someone else and that becomes a factor in failing a background check at a job they might have got.
 
BolloxReader
2011-05-18 02:45:13 PM
Nem Wan: Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're a deadbeat. What'll suck for some of these people is if their credit reports get trashed by someone else and that becomes a factor in failing a background check at a job they might have got.

Just means they have to get more bootstrappy.
 
Altourus
2011-05-18 02:46:01 PM
Can't we go one friggin day without a major repository of personal information giving it up like the head cheerleader on prom night?
 
Gunderson
2011-05-18 02:58:05 PM
Everyone I know that's on social services:
A) Owns a cell phone
B) has the body of Grimace
C) has a "Free Parking" sign tattooed above their vagina
 
Alonjar
2011-05-18 03:03:07 PM
Its a lot more likely that a Mexican is using those identities for citizenship purposes, than because they are going to try to take out a loan in your name.
 
SkunkWerks
2011-05-18 03:14:30 PM
Symantec sucks.

Just sayin'.
 
Necrosis
2011-05-18 03:14:56 PM
I came to post some trollface/rageface before/after pictures of a hacker, but the derp ratio of this thread is way too high...
 
oph3lia
2011-05-18 07:04:33 PM
Hunch, hunch. What, what!
 
sethstorm
2011-05-18 07:52:00 PM
The more reason to slap business silly with a regulation or two prohibiting the use of credit scoring (or any similar rating) for any adverse decision(e.g. hiring, firing, promoting, contracting).

Take the value out of that information.
 
sethstorm
2011-05-18 07:55:36 PM
What about the unemployed who have good credit, but are part of the long-term unemployed? Perhaps some of the farkers here didnt think of that possibility.
 
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