To obtain the bond, send a copy of the child's birth certificate and social security number to . . . This story is false.
Postal officials attribute it to an internet-based prankster.
A class-action suit involving other infant formula makers was settled in 1996, but Gerber was not a party to the suit. The Council of Better Business Bureaus warns that personal information such as social security number should not be given to people who do not have a legitimate reason to have them.