Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com] wrote: You're one to talk.

Money order sales are recorded on video camera. Each money order has a time stamp with vendor ID. I can't speak for youk, but it would take me as a LEA about 5 minutes to take a money order, find the vendor, and get subpeona on the video surveillance. At that point I have your face. From there I run it through the FBI files, if you've ever had a state issued photo ID it'll take about 3 days to nail you.

Yes Jim, I am one to talk. In my (small) town, there are no video cameras in the PO. I've looked for them, carefully and repeatedly. (The notion that my town PO would have concealed cameras while big city POs expose them is for the clinically paranoid) Traceback is limited by the memory of the two overworked (at least on Saturday morning) ladies who woman the front desk. Of course, if I was worried I would just send cash. [...]

The only way to pay in cash is two either send it through the mail (you do know about the cash sniffing dogs used at the UPS and airports don't you?) or stop by in person. Which means that they'll have a receipt and at least on person who has seen your face. Now I suppose you could send the letter with no return address and no internal note, but then how are they going to know it was YOU paying the bill for that particular account? They're not.

Well, if you're not going to include a note, of course you're screwed. But why wouldn't you? Set up an account (U=armadillo, P=roadkill), then put some cash in a privacy envelope along with a note saying 'This is for armadillo's account'. (Now Jim, don't raise the spectre of handwriting or typewriter recognition - I think that's too silly even for you - can you cite a single case where a (B&W) laser or inkjet printed document was identified as coming from a particular well-maintained printer, as opposed to a typewriter? (I didn't think so)). If you're still worried, get a trusted friend (if you have any) to write the address. What receipt? Sending cash to anonymizer.com relies on something called trust (which I realize is a foreign concept to you). If they scam you, you won't send them cash again. Cash goes through the mail all the time, especially around Christmas. While a few 'cash sniffing dogs' do exist, the notion that domestic first class mail is routinely checked for small quantities of perfectly legal cash is another sign of clinical paranoia (or of someone who realizes he's backed into a corner and is resorting to heroic measures rather than admit defeat in an argument). [...]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:

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