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Old 03-21-2008, 09:48 PM
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Default Re: Cancel your credit cards before you die

10 years ago I tried to open a bank account. The Service rep, sitting across the desk from me, said she could not open the account because Social Security said I was dead.

I went to the local Social Security office where a nice clerk found death benefits had been paid under my numbers 20 years earlier. She got her boss in a back room somewhere to write a letter stating that I was alive. (He never saw me.)

I never took the letter back to the bank service rep to prove I was alive so I could open an account.
I stayed with my old bank

Now I have a letter from a man who has never seen me to prove to people I deal with in person that I am alive.