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H&R Block's Blunders Put Consumers at Risk of ID Theft
Posted on Jan 5, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Financial giant H&R Block's TaxCut software is designed to help users avoid nasty surprises when calculating their taxes. But many past and present customers of Block were surprised in a different way recently, as they received unsolicited copies of TaxCut in packages that prominently displayed their Social Security number (SSN) on the outside.
The recipient's SSN is embedded in a string of numbers printed on the shipping label, and many confused individuals had received a notice about the error long before they received the package. Some haven't received any package at all.
More: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/01/block_id_theft.html
Filed under: Identity Theft
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