Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Credit Card fraud online

I found a great article that provides some valuable information: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/09/it-started-out-as-a-routine-case-of-credit-card-fraud-dr-gemma-meadows-an-optometrist-in-virginia-got-a-call-from-bank-o.html

The key advice is to follow these steps:

Anyone else who finds themselves being used as part of a credit card fraud operation.

*Insist the police department get a subpoena for the email accounts involved, and pull all the records.
*Every time it happened, I would send a letter to the email addresses saying, “Stop using my information,” and I would copy the police department I am working with. Sometimes that scares off the suspect
* Call the local U.S. Postal Inspector’s office and see if you can get anyone to care there. The postal service is more likely to investigate widespread mail fraud than local police.
* File a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov

I think this will be great information for people who have had their email account hacked into the past few months.

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