When I was working, all my incoming business calls went through a receptionist. Almost nobody had the number of my private line. Since calls on it were always for me, I answered with just "Hi. This is Nutrax." Nothing to indicate the name of my employer.
Some policy agency sent out a notice to every other police agency in the country. "Call this number if you want to know if we have a warrant out for someone." Naturally, there was a big fat typo--it was my private number
It took me forever to get it corrected. In the mean time, I had this conversation at least one a week:
"Hi, this is Nutrax."
"This is Sgt. Smith of the BlahBlah police department and I have a Joe Blow here, his Social Security Number is 123-..."
"Ack!No! Stop! Don't tell me this!"
None of those brilliant Sgt. Smiths ever considered that just maybe they'd dialed a wrong number. They just launched off with all sorts of personal details of somebody they had in custody. I could have done rather well in the identity theft business--even considering that the average credit rating of those Joe Blows currently in police custody probably was pretty low.
Some policy agency sent out a notice to every other police agency in the country. "Call this number if you want to know if we have a warrant out for someone." Naturally, there was a big fat typo--it was my private number
It took me forever to get it corrected. In the mean time, I had this conversation at least one a week:
"Hi, this is Nutrax."
"This is Sgt. Smith of the BlahBlah police department and I have a Joe Blow here, his Social Security Number is 123-..."
"Ack!No! Stop! Don't tell me this!"
None of those brilliant Sgt. Smiths ever considered that just maybe they'd dialed a wrong number. They just launched off with all sorts of personal details of somebody they had in custody. I could have done rather well in the identity theft business--even considering that the average credit rating of those Joe Blows currently in police custody probably was pretty low.
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