it's ridiculously easy to get info, council tax records are available in major libraries, births, deaths and marriages are searchable online...
I'm sure with some convincing patter over the phone with a credit card receipt you could work wonders...
i had a mate that worked for the government in the 90s, he registered a load of americans for National Insurance numbers, and just forgot to hand in the forms - all their info on it, birth, numbers, everyting...kept them for a year by accident..
no one said a dickie-bird...
