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# Riff Raff #
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# Presents: #
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# THE INFORMATION AGE #
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# or #
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# An Introduction to Gathering #
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# Facts About People #
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# #
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Revision 1.0 Updated: 12/15/85
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Preface:
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In today's "Information Age," knowledge is power: data is gold. Never
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forget the Golden Rule: "The man with the gold is making the rules."
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In this article, I will discuss simple methods for obtaining information
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about people. I will leave it to your vivid imagination to think of uses for
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the information you can obtain.
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The Telephone Company:
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I won't insult your intelligence by discussing published numbers. Non-listed
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numbers are not listed in the telephone directory, but can be obtained through
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directory assistance. If a number is non-published, the DA op will tell you.
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This will at least show that the person in question does exist in the given
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town. Your next step is to go to your library and search through the
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Criss-Cross directory. In this you can use the person's name to find his
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street address and sometimes even his phone number as some information in this
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book is gotten through a census. Also in this book is a list of published
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phone numbers and their owners, and the owner's street address, number of
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people residing at that address, and if the owner is a business or residence.
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If you are trying to find information about a person out of state through this
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method, try calling a public library in a major city near the person. Most
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librarians are usually very helpful.
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CNA: If you have a phone number and want an owner, try the Criss-Cross
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directory first. This minimizes the chance that the phone company will get
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tired of hearing 13 year olds calling their CN/A operators. Of course, if the
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number is non-pub, you will have to resort to using this service. See BIOC
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Agent 003's Basic Telecommunications series for details on use of CN/A.
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COSMOS: Yes, this too should be off limits to 13 year olds. I have seen
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more COSMOS go down because of some smart-ass GUMP than I care to discuss. I
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will direct you to Lex Luthor's article on Hacking COSMOS for further
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information on this subject.
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Post Office:
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The zip code of the address of your victim can be obtained by calling the
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post office of any major city. Besides for faster (bullshit) mail services,
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the zip code is also used by several mail order houses and by credit bureaus
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for keeping track of people, so it is important. Another source of zip codes
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in your state is the phone book.
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Police Departments:
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Don't waste your time. They will want know more about YOU than you will ever
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want to know about the person you are checking out. Besides, I have not found
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a police department that will be the least bit cooperative in gathering
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information for you (even in legitimate cases).
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Department of Motor Vehicles:
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These people are the greatest! Visit or call your local DMV to request a
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form for Registration information to trace a license plate. In my state, the
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report is only $0.75 as of this writing. You get the specs about the vehicle,
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and name, address, and age of the owner. Driver License File information and
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Accident History can also be obtained by providing basic information and the
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nominal fee. With driver license info, you should receive the license number.
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This can be used to create the victim's license with your picture on it at any
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good ID dealership found in any major city. * One note: pay by money order!
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It takes a month to clear a personal check.
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Credit Bureaus:
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The ever-popular TRW and CBI credit checking services are great sources of
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information about the person's financial history and their current charge
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accounts. All you need is the person's name, full street address, city, state,
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and zip code (and, of course, a PW).
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Also included in the output is the person's (drum roll, please) social
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security number. This little number follows the person everywhere he goes (and
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so can you!). Government agencies, banks, colleges, and many other
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non-governmental agencies (for example, the Red Cross) use it. Read on for
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more information about its misuse (heh heh).
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Social Security Administration:
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You should always make sure that the person's earnings records (and previous
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employment record) are in order. Stop by your local SSA office and pick up a
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copy of form: SSA-7004-PC. Have the records sent to your favorite PO box lest
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anyone get suspicious.
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Universities, Schools, etc.
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If you know where your victim has graduated from, you can write the school,
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representing yourself as the victim, and request that a copy of your records be
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forwarded to your present employer @ your favorite P.O. box. The transcript
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should include parent's address (at the time of graduation) and high school he
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graduated from. This should give you a clue about where to look for earlier
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records on the person. Keep in mind that the Federal privacy law of 1974
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restricts access to academic transcripts to requests by the student himself.
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Also, schools can differ in the procedures for forwarding transcripts. It may
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or may not be necessary to forge the persons signature. I suggest that you
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check with each individual school to find out about the procedure.
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More Places to Look:
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While the previously mentioned methods are tried and true, the following ones
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have not yet been fully tested by yours truly as of this date. They consist of
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several good suggestions by friends, ideas that just happen to hit me during
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Calculus class, and info taken from various books. These are included for the
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person who wishes to gather esoteric information their friends and enemies.
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Passports:
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Information concerning passports can be obtained by writing to the following
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address:
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Passport Office
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Department of State
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Washington, DC 20520
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You generally need to supply the name of the person, the place where the
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passport was obtained, and the approximate date on which the passport was
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issued.
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Military Service:
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National Personnel Records Center
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General Service Administration
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9700 Page Boulevard
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St. Louis, Missouri 63132
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Use Standard Form 180, Request Pertaining to Military Personnel Records, to
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request service records. The information is generally restricted to servicemen
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and their immediate families. If the veteran is living, his signature is
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normally required.
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Civil Service:
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Requests for non-military government employee's records are under similar
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restrictions as those for military service records. The requests should
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include the employee's full name, address of the agency he worked for, and
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approxmate dates of employment. The address to send your inquiries to is:
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Civilian Personnel Records
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General Service Administration
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111 Winnebago Street
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St. Louis, Missouri 63118
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County Courthouse:
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There's a lot of info here if you're able to visit the courthouse in the town
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where your victim has lived. If you can't visit the place, write to the
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registrar with as few brief, specific questions as possible. Now the specs:
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Marriage, Birth, Death Records: Visit the courthouse and tell the registrar
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that you are researching your family's geneaology. Ask if you can look up some
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marriage records. He will not normally do the research for you, but he should
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let you look through the records The info you will find will include the
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groom's name, the bride's name (maiden) and the date of the marriage (accurate
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to +/- 7 days). In this office, you should also be able to get copies of wills
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and probate records to research the person's family general financial history.
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Churches:
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If you know a church that the person attended, you can also look up marriage,
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baptismal, confirmation, and death records. The quality and consistency of
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these records can vary greatly depending on the individual church.
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Hospitals:
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Hospitals will have records of births, deaths, and other medical info. You'd
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have to represent yourself as a family member to obtain personal medical info,
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but it can't hurt to try.
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For Further Reading:
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Government publication: "Where to Write for Vital Records: Births, Deaths,
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Marriages, Divorces"
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Books: Genealogy books can have additional suggestions for research.
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Magazines: "Soldier of Fortune" has ads for books about gathering information.
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If you have any questions, comments, corrections, insults, fan mail, hate
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mail, or just want to say "hi!", drop me a line on the Twilight Zone (203) or
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on Excalibur (203) [Atari Only!]. Watch for future updates when I get off my
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ass again to write the sequel.
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Happy Trails to You...
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Riff Raff
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