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Website That Offers
a Search of U.S. Driver's Licenses-Fiction!
Summary of the eRumor: The email warns you that there
is a site that has everybody's driver's license on it and you are warned
that you should go to the site and have your information removed.
The email directs you to a web
page promoted as "Driver's License Search.us." It claims
to be a service of the National Motor Vehicle License Bureau.
The Truth: This would be alarming if true
but it's a joke.
If you use the page to search for anybody's name, you'll eventually be
directed to a driver's license with a picture of a baboon on it!
The page connects with a site at http://www.license.shorturl.com/
Last updated 10/22/05
A real example of the story as it
has been circulated:
Just when you thought you were safe....
BLOCK YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE
This is upsetting, thought I should pass it along. Check
your drivers
license... Now you can see anyone's Driver's License on the
Internet,
including your own! I just searched for mine and there it
was...
picture and all!
Thanks Homeland Security! Privacy, where Is our right to
it? I
definitely removed mine, I suggest you all do the same.....
Go to the website and check it out. Just enter your name,
City and
state to see if yours is on file.
After your license comes on the screen, click the box
marked "Please
Remove". This will remove it from public viewing, but
not from law
enforcement.
