ID Theft -- Courtesy of the FAA

"quietguy" wrote in message
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I've just received a "past due" invoice for the purchase of 250
gallons of Jet A from an FBO a thousand miles away on 20 May. The
invoice includes my name and address and the N-number of my airplane.
The trouble is: I'm not a jet pilot; haven't been to that city in
thirty years; the airplane with that N-number is still a-building in
my garage and it won't burn kerosene when it flies, anyway.

There's only one way my name, address and reserved N-number could have
been obtained by whoever used them: he got them from the FAA website
by doing a search of the reserved N-number database. To my horror, I
found that information in less than a minute after going to the site.
The database of active N-numbers is equally easy to search.

If this guy is smart he got the names/addresses/tail-numbers for a
dozen or more people, got a dozen or more bogus credit cards and is
using each one just once at self-service pumps to avoid creating a
paper-trail that can be followed. His use of jet fuel is one thing
that will save me from having to pay for his travels. If he'd bought
100LL I might very well have been stuck for the tab; the FBO might
have argued that I'd used the not-yet-airborne tail-number to bolster
a fraudulent claim of identity theft after actually fueling a flyable
aircraft.

Leave it to the braintrust at the FAA to provide such great service to
ID thieves. Better yet, DON"T leave it to them. Write to the FAA
right now and tell them specifically that you want your address
removed from *all* their public-access databases:


Why would the FBO send you a paper INVOICE for a credit card sale?

Something here is fishy. There are several holes in your "story".

On Jul 1, 12:24 pm, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:
Why would the FBO send you a paper INVOICE for a credit card sale?

Something here is fishy. There are several holes in your "story".

I've got better things to do right now than to respond at length to
somebody who's apparently got nothing better to do than to call
another man a liar from a safe distance, but I won't let that crack
pass. The low-ranking person minding the store on a Saturday
afternoon said it was a credit-card transaction; maybe she was wrong.
And many companies try sending invoices as a first step in "past due"
cases, before reporting a customer to the card issuer. I've promised
to tell more when I know more, and I will.

"quietguy" wrote in message
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On Jul 1, 12:24 pm, "Matt Barrow"
wrote:
Why would the FBO send you a paper INVOICE for a credit card sale?

Something here is fishy. There are several holes in your "story".

I've got better things to do right now than to respond at length to
somebody who's apparently got nothing better to do than to call
another man a liar from a safe distance, but I won't let that crack
pass.

Dude, I think you just gave yourself away.

The low-ranking person minding the store on a Saturday
afternoon said it was a credit-card transaction; maybe she was wrong.

And maybe you jumped the gun longggg before you had analyzed your case.

And many companies try sending invoices as a first step in "past due"
cases, before reporting a customer to the card issuer. I've promised
to tell more when I know more, and I will.

Not on credit card transactions.

As I said, you've got holes in your story big enough to drive a freight
train through.

"Matt Barrow" wrote:
As I said, you've got holes in your story big enough to drive a freight
train through.

Maybe you can clue us in on what you think "quietguy" gains by this story?

Jim Logajan wrote in
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Maybe you can clue us in on what you think "quietguy" gains by
this story?

Probably the same thing that people who send out comupter viruses or
political bull sh*t gain (whatever turns them on).

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"John Godwin" wrote in message
. 3.50...
Jim Logajan wrote in
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Maybe you can clue us in on what you think "quietguy" gains by
this story?

Probably the same thing that people who send out comupter viruses or
political bull sh*t gain (whatever turns them on).


Also, an "out", or an agenda,(like Jim's), or just plain immaturity. (See
how it all fits?)

Just because Jim is clueless (Hey, Jim...what's your boy James hansen's
reason for screeching about GW (and why did you misstate that Hansen had the
climate estimartes "dead on" (your words, AIR)? What's his "reason" for
wanting Nurnberg trials for skeptics?

Putz!

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"quietguy" wrote in message
ups.com...
I've just received a "past due" invoice for the purchase of 250
gallons of Jet A from an FBO a thousand miles away on 20 May.

I'd like to know who the FBO is. This anecdotal stuff adds to the stink
here.