Identity Theft - Lakes Region

NHskier · 01-14-2023, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by phoenix

I once posted this if you hover over the email address from sender, you will usually find it's not a bank or other legit company.

This reminds me of an email I received a few years ago purportedly from Xfinity, regarding my account. This looked quite legitimate. However on very close examination the link to click on showed Xfinitity.com.

I used this for several years in a college IT class I taught.

tummyman · 01-14-2023, 06:25 PM

Got a call the other day from my "grandson" who had a bad accident and needed money to pay his medical bill at hospital. The accent was a dead giveaway. But I played on...said because of the "injury" it was hard to understand my "grandson" but I would be glad to help if my grandson could just confirm his middle name. Caller did not reply but said they really wanted to talk to my wife instead. I told them to go f- - - themselves and hung up.

tummyman · 01-14-2023, 06:32 PM

I also got my credit card hacked just before XMAS....tragic as the bank had to cancel my card and issue a new one. Luckily the new one came in 2 days of the wife would have had a shopping nightmare. Anyway, as an extra precaution, I put a lock on my two savings accounts for 90 days. Nothing can come out of the account without a special authorization by me. Money could still go in if I wanted. I was really worried that if they got the credit card, how much else did they get at bank. May renew this lock at the end of 90 days. My brokerage people will not do any transaction unless they get a verbal approval by me or my wife. And they absolutely know our voices. No electronic transactions allowed on anything. All verbal approvals.

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01-14-2023, 06:25 PM	#2
tummyman Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 890 Thanks: 279 Thanked 765 Times in 272 Posts	Got a call the other day from my "grandson" who had a bad accident and needed money to pay his medical bill at hospital. The accent was a dead giveaway. But I played on...said because of the "injury" it was hard to understand my "grandson" but I would be glad to help if my grandson could just confirm his middle name. Caller did not reply but said they really wanted to talk to my wife instead. I told them to go f- - - themselves and hung up.

01-14-2023, 06:32 PM	#3
tummyman Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 890 Thanks: 279 Thanked 765 Times in 272 Posts	I also got my credit card hacked just before XMAS....tragic as the bank had to cancel my card and issue a new one. Luckily the new one came in 2 days of the wife would have had a shopping nightmare. Anyway, as an extra precaution, I put a lock on my two savings accounts for 90 days. Nothing can come out of the account without a special authorization by me. Money could still go in if I wanted. I was really worried that if they got the credit card, how much else did they get at bank. May renew this lock at the end of 90 days. My brokerage people will not do any transaction unless they get a verbal approval by me or my wife. And they absolutely know our voices. No electronic transactions allowed on anything. All verbal approvals.