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03-31-2009, 08:16 AM | #1 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | ID Theft - what happened to a personal friend of mine This is SO SCARY - just received this from a personal friend, this morning: Team and friends, please read this carefully. If this can happen to me, it can happen to you. Follow the timeline - this is a nightmare! Last Thursday March 26th, my husband and I received multiple phone calls from our credit card companies that "suspected frauduent activity" had occurred on our credit cards. It was significant enough for us to take note and make the move to join LifeLock. We opened the LifeLock account on Friday March 27th. On Sunday March 29th at ~5pm, I attempted to log on to LifeLock and was denied access with a security warning that my phone number and password had been changed. I did not change this and had not even logged onto LifeLock yet! My husband and I spent almost 3 hours on the phone with LifeLock making our account bulletproof. Sunday 8:15pm - my husband recieves an email in his aol account that our "identities have been taken" and it stated the terms and conditions in which we would have control over our lives again. One of these conditions was to "allow this person access for the next 10 days" in which at the end of the 10 days it would be turned back over to us and at that time we would be able to deal with "customer care representitives" from credit card companies, we would not be held responsible because banks are prepared for these kinds of things. We were warned not to interfere or call the police. Sunday 8:30 we began to close all of our accounts, credit cards, checking, savings, etc…with the intent of reopening the following work day and calling the police. Midnight - we received a phone call at home in a computer-disguised voice threatening us that we were warned to not interfere for 10 days, some vulgarities and more threats that "now you will really pay"…. This call came to our home phone from my husbands cell phone. Monday 12:20 am - my husband logged onto his aol account, all 811 e-mails had been deleted - except for the identity ransom note. This person has remote access to my husbands account and was also able to see all of our activity on line. Monday 1:15 am Sherriff called and police report taken Monday 8:00 am - FBI shows up at our front door. Fortunately, we have only lost a very small amount of money - as a small household account was actually breached - however, we continue to deal with the phone calls from companies verifying applications from Paypal to Home equity lines. Please protect yourselves. Information that you thought was safe is not. For example, your mother's maiden name - change these to something bizaar such as 2stopsign77. We thought we were being careful. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. OMG, this scares the crap out of me. I think hubby and me are safe, but gosh, you just never know!!!
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03-31-2009, 08:31 AM | #2 |
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| Holy cow! This sounds like a movie almost! OMG the phone calls & demands too! SCARY! |
03-31-2009, 08:32 AM | #3 |
♥ Mama's Boy ♥ Donating Member | This has happened to be over 2 years now and people are still opening up accounts in my name even though I have put out alerts.It is horrible and my credit is now down the drain. I did file a police report the same day that it happened and I am still getting calls for creditors trying to collect money for me. I have learned a very pricey lesson and am still paying for it. Someone opened a cell phone account in my name and now they cell phone company is saying that I know the person that opened it, which I don't they are trying to collect $2,000 from me and my parents have even had to hire an attorney. There were 3 more accounts opened in my name just last year that we are trying to fix but so far little luck. It is a huge mess.
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03-31-2009, 08:32 AM | #4 |
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| Wow, Ann that IS really scary. I don't think we are ever completely safe when we are on-line. On a side not, it is ashame that people who are this clever don't use their talents for the betterment of mankind. |
03-31-2009, 08:46 AM | #5 | |
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She also emailed me a .jpg of the "ransom note" to get their Identity back - it's just crazy.
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03-31-2009, 08:48 AM | #6 |
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| how scary! thanks for posting this Anne!
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03-31-2009, 08:56 AM | #7 |
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| They just had something about this on last Sunday and these people doing this stuff with hacking computers, etc. are actually kids and I can't remember what country they're in. But, the cops in their country don't do anything about it. Infact, they get their pictures in the paper showing them off, it's really sad. There is a worm just sitting that is waiting for the go ahead on most of our computers, they said tomorrow might be the day. It's very easy to pick this worm up, and these people have all of our info which is b.s. I won't be on the computer much tomorrow at all. |
03-31-2009, 09:01 AM | #8 |
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| Thanks Ann for the info. Really scary and it seems to be happening more and more.
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03-31-2009, 09:06 AM | #9 |
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| Really scary stuff. I always wonder how people have the time to do the worse!
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03-31-2009, 09:22 AM | #10 |
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| The internet has opened up a whole new way of thieft. Anyone can find out anything about you if they are clever enough. Actually, I'm afraid to do banking on line. I am glad your friend did'nt loose much and was smart enough not to do what they wanted. Very scary stuff, |
03-31-2009, 09:26 AM | #11 | ||
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I heard about that computer "worm" too! Yikes. On April Fools day too. Quote:
__________________ ~ A friend told me I was delusional. I nearly fell off my unicorn. ~ °¨¨¨°ºOº°¨¨¨° Ann | Pfeiffer | Marcel Verdel Purcell | Wylie | Artie °¨¨¨°ºOº°¨¨¨° | ||
03-31-2009, 09:31 AM | #12 |
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| Whoa that is crazy! I've never heard of anything like that. It makes me want to look into lifelock- has anyone used it?
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03-31-2009, 09:35 AM | #13 |
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| I learned about his SpoofCard - Fake Caller ID, Change Your Voice, Record Calls Spoof Caller ID - SpoofCard.com on another forum from a girl who was being stalked. Maybe that's how they were able to show the husband's number on caller id. I don't know how this is even legal- so scary!
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03-31-2009, 10:13 AM | #14 |
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| Oh my word, I've never heard of such a thing that is so horrible! I hope everything works out ok for your friend. I just had a $500 charge on a credit card that I didn't make. I really thought it was a mistake because it was a utility charge, but my credit card company said it was fraud. I thought how stupid, to try and pay a house bill with a credit card number you have stolen or hacked!
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03-31-2009, 10:27 AM | #15 | ||
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