Comments: Old tech never dies - fax machines

I find it ridiculous that people accept a signed fax as proof of anything. I have explicitly told my Bank NOT to accept signed authorizations to do anything regarding my account. It is so easy to forge the signature on a fax that it makes me wonder why it has not become a widespread criminal activity.

I guess, the fax will die with the retirement of the (legrely) computer-illiterate generation of office workers. Well within our lifetime.

Posted by Daniel A. Nagy at April 2, 2005 06:24 PM

An old friend just called and told me how his ex-wife got access to his locked mail box while he was in hospital obtaining a check and forging his signature then depositing the check in her bank account. Now the US Post Office knew her but had no signature for her to recieve any of the mail from that box and the bank had no reason to accept a check made out to her ex-husband. This is all very low tech but the ex-wife has a history or scams involving recieving dead peoples social security and bunch of other types of criminal scams. In fact she uses her dead mothers credit references to obtain loans again forging signatures. So low tech still walks around getting pay days for how long your guess is as good as mine.

Posted by Jimbo at April 2, 2005 08:59 PM
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