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Dec 8, 2015 5:00 PM in response to Wazizby BobTheFisherman,★HelpfulNotify your financial institutions and cancel your credit card. Change your passwords on all Apple accounts.
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Dec 8, 2015 5:01 PM in response to Wazizby ChitlinsCC,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
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Dec 9, 2015 3:01 AM in response to ChitlinsCCby jkoenig137,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
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Dec 9, 2015 3:35 PM in response to Wazizby Belindajoan,THIS was the one I got... I RAN AWAY FAST..!!!!
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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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Dec 9, 2015 6:16 PM in response to jkoenig137by babowa,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.
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Dec 12, 2015 6:47 PM in response to Wazizby Apple Alert,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.
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Dec 12, 2015 6:54 PM in response to Apple Alertby ChitlinsCC,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 =
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Dec 12, 2015 7:03 PM in response to Wazizby FishingAddict,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
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Dec 12, 2015 7:10 PM in response to FishingAddictby ChitlinsCC,Credit Freeze = Muy buen consejo! Gracias, amigo.
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Dec 12, 2015 7:27 PM in response to ChitlinsCCby FishingAddict,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/