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TorchTheWitch

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38. his letter went to someone in authority

Thu Mar 13, 2014, 04:39 AM

Mar 2014

If he was worried about ID theft why would he contact them at all when with wasting time verifying his identity they'd know far more about him than just his passport number. He gave them information they would have found out anyway but would have had to waste time researching and verifying. Come on, you really believe that in sending that information to authorities that those authorities were not going to turn over every rock concerning absolutely everything about him anyway? That they'd be satisfied with just his name and employee ID number? He already knew he'd be scrutinized far more than just his identity and would find out everything there was to know about him, so why try to hide that information when it would only waste the time of the authorities finding out that information or worse make them think he was just some crank by holding back on that information for no logical reason instead of giving it up front.

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