Thursday
Suppose that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs have lost your personal financial information (along with that of 25 million other people) on a set of lost CDs, or perhaps they have simply lost all the details of your VAT registration.
In any event, the criminals have your National Insurance number. You are worried about fraud. It is good that HMRC have provided information to help you deal with it.
(Via the Register).
I'd love to say how much I enjoyed this post, but, you know, (This text has been withheld because of exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act 2000)
Posted by Johnathan Reale at February 28, 2008 01:20 PM
Perhaps you can buy it back from some criminal and claim that against tax. After all that appears to be what the revenue does.
Posted by guy herbert at February 28, 2008 02:25 PM
If it wasn't so disturbing, that would actually be funny.
Posted by mandrill at February 28, 2008 03:36 PM
On the assumption that the attention would cause them to alter or remove the page, I saved a copy to disk. Wouldn't a screen capture of it make interesting wall paper? Maybe rotated 90 degrees to reduce the visual confusion.
For some reason, looking at this page caused me to wonder something unrelated. If you put a fence around Whitehall and ignored them, would any of them actually notice?
Posted by Midwesterner at February 28, 2008 04:42 PM
Ya know what might fix this? An "in-country" passport.
Yep, problem solved.
Government to the rescue!!!
Posted by Tman at February 28, 2008 06:27 PM
In a similar vein, the State of Wisconsin where I live sent out 2006 tax forms to a goodly portion of the filers with their social security number squarely on the mailing label. After much embarrassment and apologies, and a free subscription to an Equifax account to see if anyone is using the broadcasted information to steal their identity, the State turned around and did it again in 2007.
Morons.
Once again to those who acquiesce so easily to government gathering of information and issuing of control numbers, saying that "if you've got nothing to hide blah blah blah". The information WILL be LOST, BROADCASTED AND ABUSED.
Posted by Brad at February 28, 2008 07:43 PM
That's quite a stunning find Mr. Jennings, I'll have to pass it on, despite the exemptions of the FOI Act!
Posted by Curly at February 28, 2008 08:55 PM
