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Monday, September 18, 2017
If Someone Calls You From Equifax To Verify Your Account, It’s A Scam
Now that Equifax is part of the mass public consciousness for failing to secure sensitive financial and personal information for about half of the adult U.S. population, soulless scammers are trying to prey on this heightened awareness by blasting out fake calls to people, asking them to verify their account information.
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If anyone calls me and wants me to verify any account number, I hang up. No legitimate business, or bank, will call you and ask you to verify an account number, social security number, or your address. That is always a scammer calling. Same thing if someone calls you claiming to be the IRS. The IRS never, ever calls a taxpayer. Their correspondence is always by mail. If they want to talk to you, they will send you a LETTER asking you to call a certain number to speak with an agent.
The home phone is not your friend, it is now an enemy to beware of.
I agree with the above if you have an account somewhere they would never call to verify your number--this goes for anywhere!
I can't even get on their website to find out if I've been compromised without agreeing with their terms to accept the credit protection, which would keep me out of any class action suits.
WTF???
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