Jan 24, 2020

Signing 2020

Have seen this in a number of places and thought I would pass along, in case you missed it. According to law enforcement, this habit could put you at major risk of fraud.
When signing and dating legal documents, do not use 20 as the year 2020.
The problem stems from the ease at which the year 20 can be changed to any date from the last two decades. For example 02/01/20 could easily be changed to 02/01/2019, 02/01/2016, etc., giving scammers a chance to defraud you. Of course that was also true of using 19 as it could have been changed to 1991, etc, but that would make the dates changed to much older.


Incidentally, using 02/29/20 would be a bit less of a problem due to the lower number of leap years. Just had to add that tidbit as 2020 is a leap year. Ha.

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