And consider putting a temporary lock on your credit. It should be free with any of
the 3 big credit reporting agencies. I used equifax
<https://www.equifax.com/personal/products/credit/credit-lock-alert/> when my
info was leaked. The lock simply means you (or anyone impersonating you) has to jump
through a few more hoops to get a loan or whatever.
On 8/12/22 06:53, Steve Smith wrote:
Nick -
If I understand your story correctly, I would start by verifying the "local health care company". If they
are someone you do business with, then you can contact them otherwise through "normal" channels (not
website/e-mail) that you already trust (you do business with them already?) It is not good practice for *them* to be
directing you to a third-party "monitoring" site in they way they seem to be. If you do NOT do business
with them already then it is almost assuredly a phishing attempt. Or maybe more appropriately a "phlushing"
attempt... what predators do to try to get prey to panic and expose themselves so they can pounce and/or run you to
ground.
Hope your summer is going well otherwise!
- Steve
On 8/12/22 4:12 AM, David Eric Smith wrote:
Yes, Nick,
Stay in your cage of distrust. I will be very surprised if you ultimately
determine that this _wasn’t_ a scam. Maybe even add a bar or two to your cage
walls: I would generally not log into a link received in an email, if there
weren’t some way I could initiate the contact with a known company through some
website that the various certifiers think is theirs.
Eric
On Aug 12, 2022, at 10:24 AM, <[email protected]>
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, everybody,
Sorry for the bother.
A local health care company writes me to say they have compromised all my
identity data, and offers to pay for “Kroll Monitoring Services”, giving me an
ID number with which to log into their site. When I do this, the site fills in
my correct address and last name but an incorrect first name, and asks me to
enter all my identity data. At this point, I begin to contemplate that the
notice itself may be a fraud. I eventually find Kroll on the web, but it
wasn’t all that easy. None of the sites that evaluate credit monitoring
services has it. How do I extricate myself from my cage of distrust?
Nick
Nick Thompson
[email protected]
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