[GLLUG] Phone Pest

[Bryan Laur]

You could also look at credit karma.
It doesn't do a hard credit pull and you can refresh it as much as you wish.


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:

> 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
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