[FRIAM] Advice sought: data compromise

[Alexander Rasmus]

Nick,

Depending on your level of paranoia, you could either call the health care
company on a phone number publicly posted on their website and confirm with
them that the contents of the email are accurate, or physically show up and
do the same. Double checking that the email address corresponds to the
email address of the health care company might also help, but isn't really
conclusive either way.

You should also double check whether the kroll website they link you to
corresponds to the kroll website you find when googling.

Best,
Alex

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 7:24 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi, everybody,
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> Sorry for  the bother.
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> A local health care company writes me to say they have compromised all my
> identity data, and offers to pay for “Kroll Monitoring Services”, giving me
> an ID number with which to log into their site.  When I do this, the site
> fills in my correct address and last name but an incorrect first name, and
> asks me to enter all my identity data.  At this point, I begin to
> contemplate that the notice itself may be a fraud.  I eventually find Kroll
> on the web, but it wasn’t all that easy.  None of the sites that evaluate
> credit monitoring services has it.  How do I extricate myself from my cage
> of distrust?
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> Nick
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> Nick Thompson
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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