[GLLUG] Phone Pest

[Clay Dowling]

On 08/12/2013 10:11 AM, Chick Tower wrote:
> I returned to St. Louis Sunday to find over twenty messages on my
> answering machine, most from insurance companies about a request for a
> quote that I never made.  The perpetrator(s) of this hoax don't seem
> to know any more about me than what is in the local phone book, so
> identity fraud that causes a loss doesn't seem to be an issue.  They
> did use an e-mail address, diginbmhz at outlook.com, with at least two of
> the insurance companies, and one of their representatives told me he
> had sent e-mail to it (since I wasn't responding to his phone calls)
> and didn't get any error messages.
This might be a good time to take advantage of the free credit report
you're entitled to by law (don't use freecreditreport.com, which is a
scam site and taking heat from the federal government) and make sure
that nobody is pulling credit in your name.

Clay