I recently got a forwarded email titled “Longest initials’. Only in Sri Lanka would there be a guy who has 15 initials to his name. I know what each of those initials stand for too.
It’s just another email forward right? Wrong!
This email contained scanned copy of a National Identity Card and a
scanned pre-paid mobile connection application form of Dialog Telecom. Therefor I also know what he looks like, his date of birth, place of birth, address, mobile number along with his SIM number, and I also have a scanned copy of his NIC! That’s just disturbing on so many levels. I certainly would not like even the idea of my NIC or any other confidential document being scanned and sent out as email forwards.
It seems most likely that this happened at the place where this dude went to get his phone connection. If not, it’s certainly a good place to start looking for the place/person that had the bright idea of circulating these documents. Since the agent ID’s are also on the form they won’t be too difficult to find either
Now that this has happened, who should be responsible for this? What should happen next? What should be done to make this not happen again?
What’s likely to happen?