Are you legally alive?

[DigitalSoldier]

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2486922,00.html

South Africans are being urged to confirm whether they are officially alive, as the beleaguered home affairs department attempts to do away with "fraudulent deaths", government said on Tuesday.

"We really call upon citizens to confirm your alive status," local government minister Richard Baloyi told a press conference.

A special call centre has been set up for South Africans to check if they have been wrongly declared dead - an increasingly common problem with identity theft by criminals trying to benefit from life insurance, he said.

 

[killadoob]

Great declare me dead and write off all my debt

Sounds awesome to me .

 

[general_koffi]

Great declare me dead and write off all my debt

Sounds awesome to me .

Your creditors basically get to fight over your assets if you're declared dead.

I get the feeling that most of the people wrongly considered "dead" are not a major part of the formal economy.

 

[blunomore]

Are you dead or alive?

Home Affairs on Monday launched its Alive Status Verification Self-Help Service, allowing South Africans to find out whether they are officially dead or alive.

"The purpose of the service is assist South Africans to check their status to ensure that they have not been fraudulently declared dead on the population register," the department said in a statement.

It did not elaborate on why anyone would be fraudulently declared dead.

"Clients are advised to use either the department's website, or SMS, to verify their alive or deceased status.

"To use the website, people should visit www.dha.gov.za and click on 'Check your Status' [at the top left corner of the Homepage] and choose ID status verification (Alive/Deceased).

"They will be required to enter their ID number and press the verify button to see if they are alive or deceased.

"Using the SMS service, clients can type in the letter L, followed by the ID number, to 32551. A reply SMS will then be sent back confirming status as either alive or deceased. Each SMS costs R1 charged by the client's network service provider."

The department said people could also determine their status by phoning its call centre on 0800 60 11 90.

Those who got a message back telling them they were officially "deceased" would need to visit a police station.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-03-23-home-affairs-new-alive-service-dead-on

 

[kronoSX]

will do

 

[blunomore]

will do

Good luck

 

[TelkomUseless]

.. alive

 

[kronoSX]

Good luck

 

[LazyLion]

negative, I am a meat popsicle

 

[eek]

Alive and Single!

 

[gregmcc]

HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Guess it means I'm dead

 

[Stokstert]

Alive and married.

You can't hide anything anymore if your ID is known to someone, shucks.

 

[eek]

HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Guess it means I'm dead

Try using IE rather than say Firefox!

Had the same....worked on IE.

 

[Gru]

HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Guess it means I'm dead

me too.

Can we procceed to the 72 virgins bit now?

 

[Gru]

Try using IE rather than say Firefox!

Had the same....worked on IE.

Opera: Result: This service is currently unavailable.
Please try again later.

[-]Virus[/-]IE: Result: This service is currently unavailable.
Please try again later.

 

[eek]

Mmmm....so you really just don't exist! lol.

 

[Gru]

Mmmm....so you really just don't exist! lol.

Stop making excuses and gimme my 72 virgins!!!!!

 

[eek]

Stop making excuses and gimme my 72 virgins!!!!!

lol....I don't even think I know 7 virgins!

 

[kronoSX]

what still married 19 september...that bitch:d

 

[ld13]

The IE link works just fine in FF ... http://www.dha.gov.za/enquiry/living/status/living_status.asp

But that is not much help as both IE and FF is giving me this at the moment:
This service is currently unavailable.
Please try again later.