[FRIAM] Advice sought: data compromise

[Steve Smith]

Nick -

If I understand your story correctly, I would start by verifying the 
"local health care company".  If they are someone you do business with, 
then you can contact them otherwise through "normal" channels (not 
website/e-mail) that you already trust (you do business with them 
already?)   It is not good practice for *them* to be directing you to a 
third-party "monitoring" site in they way they seem to be.   If you do 
NOT do business with them already then it is almost assuredly a phishing 
attempt.  Or maybe more appropriately a "phlushing" attempt... what 
predators do to try to get prey to panic and expose themselves so they 
can pounce and/or run you to ground.

Hope your summer is going well otherwise!

- Steve


On 8/12/22 4:12 AM, David Eric Smith wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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
>> Nick Thompson
>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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