Waziz

Q: Fraud

I entered my card information, Apple ID and social in a fraud website looks alike as Apple website, what I should do to protect my social?

 

THis his is the fraud message include their website

 

FRM:2198190007@

SUBJ:New

MSG:i>¿You unable to use your Apple ID untill this process done. http : // pkwmusic .com/ verify_apple . ***

 

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iPhone 6 Plus, null

Posted on Dec 8, 2015 4:53 PM

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  • by BobTheFisherman,Helpful

    BobTheFisherman BobTheFisherman Dec 8, 2015 5:00 PM in response to Waziz
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    Dec 8, 2015 5:00 PM in response to Waziz

    Notify your financial institutions and cancel your credit card. Change your passwords on all Apple accounts.

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Dec 8, 2015 5:01 PM in response to Waziz
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    Dec 8, 2015 5:01 PM in response to Waziz

    Cancel your credit card(s). Cannot help with the fact that your Social Security number is now in the hands of the criminals. Your banker may have some advice - or better yet an attorney.

     

    The police may not be of much help, as you freely gave up your info (though you were tricked) - they actually have not committed a HUGE crime - YET.

     

    As for your apple ID > If you think your Apple ID has been compromised - Apple Support

  • by jkoenig137,

    jkoenig137 jkoenig137 Dec 9, 2015 3:01 AM in response to ChitlinsCC
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Dec 9, 2015 3:01 AM in response to ChitlinsCC

    I received the same message, but did not reply.  The bad spelling and funny address clued me in that this was a fishing site. I hope your efforts stop the jerk who is doing this!

     

    Jon

  • by Belindajoan,

    Belindajoan Belindajoan Dec 9, 2015 3:35 PM in response to Waziz
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    Dec 9, 2015 3:35 PM in response to Waziz

    THIS was the one I got...  I RAN AWAY FAST..!!!!

     

     

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    FRM:2104520009@

    SUBJ:New message

    MSG:i>¿You unable to use your Apple ID untill this process done. http : // pkwmusic. com/apple _support  .***

     

     

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    This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.(End)

     

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  • by babowa,

    babowa babowa Dec 9, 2015 6:16 PM in response to jkoenig137
    Level 7 (32,056 points)
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    Dec 9, 2015 6:16 PM in response to jkoenig137

    I hope your efforts stop the jerk who is doing this!

     

    Unfortunately, there are at least  1,000 just like him - there is no way to stop them unless everyone stopped to actually click on these scams. After a while, they'd be out of business if they're not making money off the people that actually believe their scam.

  • by Apple Alert,

    Apple Alert Apple Alert Dec 12, 2015 6:47 PM in response to Waziz
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:47 PM in response to Waziz

    I knew there was something fishy about this text the moment I got it. 1. Corporations never use for texting a callable phone number 2. This was suspicious because it has the same area code as my phone number. 3.To check my suspicions I tried downloading an App and it worked.  - So just a few examples how you could of spotted this text as a fraud. My main concern now is to find out how they got my number which was only given to apple and what else could they have obtained. I may just be sounding stupid with this, but it's good to take precautions.

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Dec 12, 2015 6:54 PM in response to Apple Alert
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    Dec 12, 2015 6:54 PM in response to Apple Alert

    Apple Alert wrote:

     

    I knew there was something fishy about this text the moment I got it. 1. Corporations never use for texting a callable phone number 2. This was suspicious because it has the same area code as my phone number. 3.To check my suspicions I tried downloading an App and it worked.  - So just a few examples how you could of spotted this text as a fraud. My main concern now is to find out how they got my number which was only given to apple and what else could they have obtained. I may just be sounding stupid with this, but it's good to take precautions.

    They don't need your number - they assume that a large majority of folks have iPhones ( <500 million est.) - they then use a "robo-SMS" computer program to send them.

     

    = the new email SPAM/SCAM =

  • by FishingAddict,

    FishingAddict FishingAddict Dec 12, 2015 7:03 PM in response to Waziz
    Level 4 (1,549 points)
    Mac OS X
    Dec 12, 2015 7:03 PM in response to Waziz

    There is a single, most important thing that you, and everyone else should do to protect your identity and unauthorized use of your SSN -- enable a "credit freeze" with each of the major credit reporting companies.  A credit freeze is the ONLY way to protect yourself and is significantly more effective than fairly useless credit "monitoring" services.

     

    https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faqs

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Dec 12, 2015 7:10 PM in response to FishingAddict
    Level 5 (7,778 points)
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    Dec 12, 2015 7:10 PM in response to FishingAddict

    Credit Freeze = Muy buen consejo! Gracias, amigo.

  • by FishingAddict,

    FishingAddict FishingAddict Dec 12, 2015 7:27 PM in response to ChitlinsCC
    Level 4 (1,549 points)
    Mac OS X
    Dec 12, 2015 7:27 PM in response to ChitlinsCC

    You are welcome.  I wish that everyone knew just how easy it is to really protect you credit and in many ways your identity.  Here is a great recent article from the most respectable Brian Krebs about just this issue:

     

    http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/opm-breach-credit-monitoring-vs-freeze/