[FRIAM] Advice sought: data compromise

[David Eric Smith]

Yes, Nick,

Stay in your cage of distrust.  I will be very surprised if you ultimately determine that this _wasn’t_ a scam.  Maybe even add a bar or two to your cage walls: I would generally not log into a link received in an email, if there weren’t some way I could initiate the contact with a known company through some website that the various certifiers think is theirs.

Eric



> On Aug 12, 2022, at 10:24 AM, <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi, everybody,  
>  
> Sorry for  the bother.
>  
> 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?  
>  
> Nick
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> Nick Thompson
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