---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:26:28 EST From: JohnE37179@aol.com To: lynn.wheeler@firstdata.com, JohnE37179@aol.com Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com, Jason.Gruber@btinternet.com, rick_smith@securecomputing.com, vertigo@panix.com Subject: Re: Rubber hose attack In a message dated 11/2/01 8:46:25 PM, lynn.wheeler@firstdata.com writes: << the following from a thread on some of the fees related to fraud issues at

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Again, this is only a very small part of the problem. The Inspector General's office reports that the average identity fraud in the Social Security Administration costs over $100,000. Texas Medicaid loses approximately 25% of its $4 billion budget to fraud. The ABA reports that the average cost of each credit card fraud for the issuer exceeds $3500. Each incident of identity fraud in recruiting costs DOD over $500,000. John Ellingson CEO Edentification, Inc. 608.833.6261 ||||# |||||| |||||| --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com