NSA, CIA, DIA, et al, should rethink spy methods

One of those things I’m not supposed to do.

The inbox this morning had a “No subject” email from Mary L. Dembeck. I do not know, nor have I ever known, a person so named. I clicked on the entry.

Yes, I know: Don’t open anything from someone you do not know. But I did. And I discovered, Mary L. Dembeck wants to give me her inheritance.

The message: “I need your help contact me now,
“I wish to pass my in`heritance fun`ds to you. Mona”

OK, so Mona, not Mary K. Dembeck, wants to give her inheritance to me. An email address followed the message, but I do know better than to use that address.

I wondered, though, about Mary L. Dembeck. Is that a name plucked from the ether, conjured from the mind of an internet identity thief? Maybe.

Mary L. Dembeck does exist … Did in at least one case; continued existence, but in another realm of Creation, if you are a believer.

A Mary L. Dembeck of Washington, D.C,. died in April 2009. She was 94. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. Her family included four doctors. For more than 30 years she was a volunteer with the Pittsburgh Guild for the blind.

A Mary L. Dembeck lives in Timonium, Md., with her husband Bernard J. Dembeck 3rd. The Dembecks live in a 2,097-square-foot house. Their latest house and land assessment is $359,752. Their house was built in 1962. It has one fireplace stack.

Information on those Mary L. Dembecks was available at no charge. Additional information was available for a fee.

When it comes to data mining, NSA and CIA and whichever other government agencies and bureaus are listening and watching could have saved taxpayer dollars simply by using credit cards.

Private companies have systems and organization in place. And, those companies are storing what they glean. The $1 billion NSA data storage place in Utah need not have been built at all.

Privatize, NSA. It’s more cost effective.