mark@utzoo.UUCP (mark bloore) (11/19/83)
the following is from a letter to the editor in this morning's globe and mail (toronto): The other day i received one of the strangest phone calls ever. It seemed, according to this all-too-pleasant voice, that my beautiful 5-year-old son had been "eradicated" - he was one of the "3 percent lost in the computer". ... she felt compelled to explain to me that, although she had found the necessary information in a filing cabinet, she was going to have to "create" my son. ... nor was I even faintly sympathetic to this person's predicament. it sounds to me as though someone has found a way to commit computer fraud without having to use a computer. has anyone else run across this trick? mARK bLOORE univ of toronto {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!mark