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Article: CHANGE IDENTITIES? IT'S EASY ON THE INTERNET.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 4, 1996
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Byline: MAC DANIEL, STAFF WRITER
IN THE OLD DAYS, when people wrote with pens and licked stamps, it was a chore to pass yourself off as someone else. Write a letter under another name and the penmanship would give you away.
Things are different today. It's now easy to become someone else via the Internet.
Recently someone assumed my identity, electronically. And all it took - all someone took - was my e-mail address and signature file.
In the Land of Ones and Zeros, after some clever cutting, pasting and e-mail rerouting, fake e-mail is easy to concoct.
Mail with my address and signature file was sent around the 'Net along ...