Happy 7th Anniversary to the Canada Revenue Agency Story of the Week :CRA SOTW
Alan Baggett
Week!
Following is the tax tale that started it all (and a link to that
historic thread).
I was told a slightly different version of this tale (link above) by
Gladstone Sue of the Toronto West TSO (Mississauga).
The theft of all of Canada’s Social Insurance Numbers took place
(allegedly by one Andreas Hackner) in the early 1980’s BC ‘Before
Computers’ at the Toronto Office before Toronto was subdivided into 4
offices. The culprit was a very close friend of Gladstone Sue
explaining why he knows these intimate details.
Mr. Kelly Bert Manning wrote that the employee was disgruntled which
is why he stole the fiche but that is not quite accurate. Gladstone
says that Andreas actually wanted to start a business locating
individuals that had lost or forgotten bank accounts. Information on
dormant bank accounts is published and he was going to charge a fee to
reunite them. The question was however ‘How would he be able to
quickly and easily locate the individuals?’ There were lots of ways
but the easiest way was via Revenue Canada microfiche. The microfiche
holds everything names, SIN's and, most importantly - current
addresses of all Canadians (as long as they are filed up to date). One
day (on his day off I was told) Andreas walked into the Toronto office
dumped the fiche and reader into a garbage bag and walked out. He was
fingered because someone remembered that he was in the office on his
day off. The last place the average Civil Servant would be found on
his day off, the Union frowns on it.
When they questioned Andreas he admitted it.
And the result?
The Toronto Director and Head of Security were both canned.
And Mr. Hackner?
He got six months in jail. Apparently he told his grandma that he was
quitting his job and was taking a vacation (so as not to upset her). I
know lots of interesting stories about Revenue Canada and the CCRA.
Would this be a good venue to air some of them? (With names of
course)
Post Script – not long after Mr. Hackner was released from jail he
bought a lottery ticket and won $5 million dollars.
(Here's another tickler here)
http://groups.google.ca/group/can.taxes/browse_frm/thread/d26443436f7a7e37/45f3f57f900386dd?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dvinay%2Bsarna%26meta%3D#45f3f57f900386dd
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