[IP] tracking old money

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>
Date: August 8, 2006 7:04:14 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] tracking old money

At 04:41 PM 8/8/2006, Arthur Evans wrote:

> My wife is beneficiary of a trust administered by a reputable bank in
> New York. Today someone from the bank called seeking information that
> (she said) was required by the Patriot Act. Well...

Something similar happened to me which was even sillier than that.  
The institution which holds my medical savings account (HSA) said  
that it insisted on having a street address, not a post office box,  
on file for me -- even though I receive all my mail at my post office  
box for reasons of privacy. (I have also frequently had trouble with  
people trying to send me mail at a street address when I did give it  
out.) It is claiming that the same law mandates this, even though I  
can find nothing in the law about it.

Do they, or our government, really believe that a would-be suicidal  
terrorist would maintain a medical savings account?

--Brett Glass



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