[Carrie]

Just got this from the SPAWAR Systems Center in Charleston and thought it appropriate to this topic:

> SUBJECT: NACEC.org Website.
>
> 1. THREAT: This website may be used for information gathering on US
> soldiers and family members for nefarious purposes.
>
> 2. BACKGROUND: The NACEC.org website is claiming to provide emergency
> notifications in order to support military families. This site
> requests; service members names, addresses, Social Security Numbers
> (SSN) as well as the names and addresses of family members, and other
> privacy act information. The site also request the service member
> provide the content of a message which is to be sent to family
> members.
>
> 3. Website Quote: "With the drastically increasing numbers of U.S.
> Armed Forces overseas, the North American Center for Emergency
> Communications (NACEC) has put their military family support 'Flash
> Mail Service' back on line, as of this week. This will help those
> members of the military stationed overseas and the military families
> that have members serving overseas."
>
> 4. This site is NOT associated with the federal government and should
> NOT be trusted. The site represents itself as being owned by a not-
> for-profit corporation (which means they haven't filed for non-profit
> status and made the necessary disclosures). The registrant for the
> website is an individual in Minnesota who may or not be an American
> national. DoD personnel should not enter any personal information on
> a non-federal website for emergency notification of families or any
> other reason.
>
> 5. Any information provided to this site could be used for identity
> theft, intelligence gathering by a foreign nations or terrorists and
> could pose a threat to service members, their families and their
> privacy.
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