RE: [Leica] Federal Express request

[Pat Perez <pat@patperez.com>]

From a strict legal standpoint, the Social Security
number can only be required for SS benefits, or income
taxation purposes. Unfortunately, the public has
apathetically allowed various institutions to co-opt
the use of the number over the years, and now it is a
key piece of information used in identity theft scams.
FedEx has no legitimate need for the SSN of anyone but
their employees. If this is in fact a real request
from FedEx, then I would either insist they accept a
different form of identification, or else, not give
the ifo (since the original poster wasn't aware of
anything he had ordered being shipped to him).


Pat
- --- Austin Franklin <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Hi Roland,
> 
> I seem to remember receiving such a form as well.  I
> remember calling them,
> and they claimed that it was now required...but I
> couldn't get a straight
> answer whether it was a FedEx requirement or a real
> government request...
> 
> I was inclined to ignore their request as well...
> 
> Austin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On
> Behalf Of Roland
> > Smith
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:01 AM
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us;
> leica@topica.com
> > Subject: [Leica] Federal Express request
> >
> >
> > A strange request was received from Federal
> Express on their stationery
> > asking for my social security number for customs. 
> I have a
> > Federal Express
> > account and found this quite curious since, I have
> ordered nothing and
> > expect nothing from out of the USA.
> >
> > Does anyone know what is going on?
> >
> > I am inclined to ignore the request.
> >
> > Roland Smith
> > Oakland, California
> 
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