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Originally Posted by masraum
I think that part is the key. Over the years, I've gotten emails from every bank you can think of and many that you haven't about "my" account, except that I don't have an account with them. It's a shotgun approach that they hope will trick the not terribly savvy folks.
Send 10 million email addresses an email about a free service. Some folks that are not that smart, and probably a little greedy ("I don't know what this is about, and I don't have an account, but I'd love to get something for free") will click the link and enter all of their info in the bogus website so that the folks behind the website and emails will have a ton of their info including name, address, phone number SSN, whatever they pick as a password (which is probably one that they use on every site) and probably a credit card.
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I did not blindly follow the instructions. Look online at several sites. PBI is a real company, that deals with pension data to various providers. They don't deal with the individual customers.
Kroll has been around for a long time as well. They are not some fake company.
Many years ago Home Depot had their credit card system hacked, and it has a list of all the customer info on a credit card and they provided me a free year of monitoring.