Bubba
Applies for a Job Contributed by Russ of Monrovia, CA

Bubba
applied for an engineering position at a Lake Charles refinery. A Yankee
applied for the same job and both applicants having the same qualifications
were asked to take a test by the manager.
Upon completion of
the test, both men only missed one of the questions.

The manager went to
Bubba and said, "Thank you for your interest, but we've decided
to give the Yankee the job."
Bubba asked, "And
why are you giving him the job? We both got nine questions correct. This
being Louisiana, and me being a Southern boy, I should get the job!"
The manager said,
"We have made our decision not on the correct answers, but rather
on the one question that you both missed."
Bubba then asked,
"And just how would one incorrect answer be better than the other?"

The manager replied,
"Bubba, it's like this. On question #4 the Yankee put down; 'I
don't know.' You put down, 'Neither do I.' "
No
Joke: Prevent Check Fraud Using Uniball Pens Contributed by Tom L., a Security Consultant from Pasadena,
CA (Forgive this plug for Uniball but I want to help protect
you --- Raoul)
Tom's email: This past week volunteer
Julie (shes a research scientist at Caltech) talked with one of
the detectives about a case where the criminals got personal checks from
victims, used bleach to wash off the recipient that victims
wrote on the check, and replaced it with another recipient,
themselves. On some checks, the criminals also changed the payable amount
to a larger dollar value.
Julie did an experiment:
she took one of her personal checks, and cut it into five pieces; she
wrote four times on each piece, using a Uniball roller gel pen, a ballpoint
pen, a purple ink pen, and a red pen. She took four of the pieces and
soaked them in bleach and in three other substances to see which of the
four inks would wash off. Examples of the unwashed sample and one washed
sample are attached.
The bottom line is
the writing done with the Uniball pen was not washed off in any of the
test strips.

Uniball pens are marketed that
they thwart any fraudulent individuals who are looking to commit check
fraud.
We agree. Using Uniball roller
gel pens will help thwart some identity thieves.

Other thieves use
computer scanners, but at least this is a start in protecting yourself.
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