TX: KHS mail mix-up prompts identity theft concerns

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.kellercitizen.com/101/story/10750.html

When the Silva family received a mailing from Keller High School last 
week, they didn.t think it would be anything unusual.

Upon opening it, Apollo and Marsha Silva found two enrollment forms. One 
was an emergency-care authorization form for their son, Anthony, 15, an 
incoming sophomore. But the other was a student-information form 
containing a classmate.s social security number, student ID number, home 
address, phone number and contact information for his parents at home and 
at work.

They quickly realized that their son.s private information, which they 
used to set up his college fund and other accounts, was mailed to someone 
else.

[.]

The high school has received about 45 phone calls from families who 
received the wrong paperwork, a spokeswoman for the Keller school district 
said Tuesday.

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