Re: Debt Validation- ER Solutions

Posted by Paul (216.127.82.97) on May 31, 2004 at 22:06:14:

In Reply to: Re: Debt Validation- ER Solutions posted by catballou on May 31, 2004 at 21:48:47:

TXU is a multi-billion dollar company with more important things to worry about than getting taken by someone who used someone else’s ssn,, if that is even the case. They’ll just charge it off to bad debt and be done with it.

There’s an excellent story in the NYTimes.com about an immigrant caught up with mismatched fingerprint cards. They continually hauled him into court under the pretext that “fingerprints don’t lie.” The fingerprints don’t lie, but if there is a clerical error someplace that puts someone else’s fingerprint card with your name, then you have big trouble. This could be an innocent clerical error.

Can Prints Lie? Yes, Man Finds to His Dismay
By BENJAMIN WEISER

Published: May 31, 2004

In front of the immigration judge, the tall, muscular man began to weep. No, he had patiently tried to explain, he was not Leo Rosario, a drug dealer and a prime candidate for deportation.
He was telling the truth. He was Rene Ramon Sanchez, an auto-body worker and merengue singer from the Bronx who bore not even a passing resemblance to Mr. Rosario, a complete stranger 12 years his junior and a half-foot shorter

"Why don't you get his photo then?" Mr. Sanchez cried out in Spanish, pounding a fist into his palm. "And compare my fingerprints with his?"

The judge, Alan L. Page, had been told the prints were the same. "The general rule is, the prints don't lie," Judge Page had said earlier. "If you got the same prints that Leo Rosario has, you're Leo Rosario. And there's nothing I can do about it."

Here’s the link for the full story.
You have to register for the NY Times, but it’s free.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/31/nyregion/31IDEN.html

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