RE: from Gail re: the terrible Equifax data breach

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

The biggest problem is the cost in fixing things, not in the loss of money
in the accounts.  Hiring lawyers and so on can get very expensive, not to
mention the price of psychological pain due to your loss of identity.

On the positive side, you only have a 1 in 143,000,000 chance of being
targetted...

 > From: "http://www.waylandcomputer.com/~Dana"; <http://www.waylandcomputer.com/~dana>
 > Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 03:25:13 +0000
 >
 > If you are really concerned then you might just want to consider cleaning out 
 > all your accounts and putting your money under your mattress.  Sorry, Just 
 > Joking...  But, you cannot let this stuff take over your life.
 > 
 > Yes, trying to correct credit fraud or errors can be a real pain.  About 15 
 > years ago, I found our credit report indicated that we had 2 mortgages.  One 
 > was our own and the other was actually my brother's(ROY) because his wife(Sue) 
 > had the same name as my wife.  It was a pain to correct but not the end of the 
 > world.
 > 
 > In the end, out of the over 2,000 service calls per year that I perform and 
 > have for the past 13 years, a large number of them are fraud, virus and scam 
 > related, I have only had one client report that he/she actually lost money and 
 > was not reimbursed by their bank or financial institution for his loss and that 
 > was because someone scammed his secretary into wire transferring $100,000 to a 
 > overseas bank account.
 > 
 > Dana