From: Bill Houseman
Date: 4/22/2013 12:23:57 AM
Subject: E911
Mark
Thanks for the reminder about cell phone 911 service, which
can be helpful. A related aspect to consider is that the phone must be
operating to use its 911 feature. If it is not transmitting, no 911. In keeping
with my personal policy of flying on someone else's nickel, I joined the local
CAP. We have found two crash sites in the past year by using cell
phone info. Cell phone towers track cell phone distance away,
presumably to determine when to shift from one tower to the next. If the cell
is tracked by two towers, both "know" its distance away, its distance
is constantly recorded, and a circle of appropriate radius can be drawn around
each tower. These two circles will cross at two points. When a plane crashes,
the cell phones become inop, but the tower data can be retrieved by a
technician and last distances etermined. The crash site will be at one of the
two crossing points of the circles.
Obviously, this takes longer than E911 locators. But your
location history is there.
Bill
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From: Robert Lance
Date: 4/28/2013 7:46:16 PM
Subject: Lifelock
Your statement that LL does not look at accounts, you need
to look in to it more carefully. They are watching my DCCU and my two TD
Ameratrade accounts.
Editor: Thanks Bob. I certainly wasn’t attempting to denigrate
LifeLock or those who use it, in any way but rather to offer the “pilot or free”
version of basically what they do. The
primary way in which LifeLock protects your identity is 1. to freeze your
credit bureau accounts, 2. not watch but rather set up electronic “alerts”
on important financial accounts, and 3. offer an insurance amount should their
systems fail. Your credit bureau accounts can be frozen by
yourself, almost all financial accounts allow for alerts to be set up to you
(rather than a 3rd party like LifeLock). And as far as the insurance is concerned, there
are big questions as to whether you would ever get that money from
LifeLock. So again, all I was really
suggesting was that the bulk of what LifeLock does for you can be done by
yourself. BUT, since you brought it up
Bob, I did take a second look at LifeLock and really didn’t find much that was
encouraging. Whether one pays for a
service to protect them or whether one becomes his/her own watchdog is
certainly a choice. Seeing what has
happened to the second CEO of LifeLock Todd Davis (after the first one ended
his career in a rather low way) was disconcerting. He boldly and ostentatiously
shared his own social security number publicly and then proceeded to get
his identity stolen at least 13 times.
For me, I have chosen to educate myself,
trying to stay away from shooting myself in the foot like I did
recently, and provide my own version of lifelock protection.
LifeLock
CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times
By Kim Zetter
Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices
By Kim Zetter
Wikipedia on
LifeLock – read the end sections.
Should you Pay for Lifelock when you can Prevent & Monitor Identity Theft for Free? A Lifelock Review
by G.E.
Miller
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From: George Chaudoin
Date: 4/23/2013 1:13:32 PM
Subject: Good Information
On The Green Side
George
Here's one for anyone who is on vacation or traveling of any sort
HOTEL
SCAM
Anyone with
some sense would not give personal info on the phone, but could still get
caught by this one.
PLEASE
PASS ALONG TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Hotel/Motel
Scam (This one is so simple it is shocking)
You arrive
at your hotel and check in at the front desk. When checking in, you give the
front desk your credit card (for all the charges for your room). You get to
your room and settle in.
Someone
calls the front desk and asks (for example) Room 620 - which happens to be your
room. The phone rings in your room. You answer and the person on the
other end says the following:
'This is
the front desk. When checking in, we came across a problem with your charge
card information. Please re-read your credit card number and verify the last 3
digits on the reverse side of your charge card.'
Not thinking
anything, you might give this person this information, since the call seems to
come from the front desk. But actually, it is a scam of someone calling from
outside the hotel/front desk.
They ask
for a random room number. Then, ask you for credit card information and address
information. They sound so professional, that you give it to them, thinking you
are talking to the front desk.
If you ever
encounter this problem on your vacation, tell the caller that you will be down
at the front desk to clear up any problems.
Then, go to
the front desk and ask if there was a problem.
If there
was none, inform the manager of the hotel that someone called to scam you of
your credit card information, acting like a front desk employee.
This was
sent by someone who has been duped........ and is still cleaning up the
mess.
P.S.
Please, consider spreading the word by forwarding this e-mail.
Who knows,
you might just help someone avoid a nasty experience.
ANYONE
traveling should be aware of this.
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