Im worried please help

[TheStateo]

hey guys can you please help

my mum just enterd all of her details such as tax file number address drivers licence and credit card

ive got her to cancel credit card and closed her paypal account but im not sure if they can do anything else
PLEASE HELP IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP PREVENT IDENTITY THEFT AND THE LIKES

[sik_dose]

What do you mean entered?

[minux]

Where did she enter them all?

I have all my details entered across the internet lol.

[Jesterarts]

Where did she enter them exactly?

I'm lost, need some mroe detail before we can try to help mate.

[danja]

What are you doing asking here? Go to the bloody police station or something and get some real advice!

[jules]

if you're lucky someone might use her TFN to pay her tax for her

[TheStateo]

sorry it was into a pay pal phishing site
and i just got back from the police station, they said"they cant do anything untill a crime is commited"

[danja]

I could have sworn identity theft was a crime...?

[TheStateo]

yes but he also said its no different than someone taking details on the street he can take them cos you have let them its what they DO with them that could be a crime

[TheStateo]

the cop said that

[minux]

I could have sworn identity theft was a crime...?

Its not identity theft until they use those documents/details to obtain anything. Friend went through the same thing, so basically they had to wait to be screwed over.

[tomslick]

I had an email yesterday claiming my paypal needed updating and to give them my personal details looked legit , until my spyware informed me that it came from an unknown sender friggin thieves everywhere. So the only advice i can offer to "try" and prevent it happening again is to at least get some good internet security. I use trend micro internet security if any help. Hope all ends up well for your mum.

[STEALTHY™]

A fool and his money are soon parted. NEVER do anything online like this, especially those ****tards paypal (if anything i'd say i'd rather deal with the scammers than the real paypal).

[Asmodai78]

hey guys can you please help

my mum just enterd all of her details such as tax file number address drivers licence and credit card

ive got her to cancel credit card and closed her paypal account but im not sure if they can do anything else
PLEASE HELP IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP PREVENT IDENTITY THEFT AND THE LIKES

what possessed your mum to do something like that??

[Julie]

You need to educate you mother, because that was a seriously stupid thing to do tell her that NOone legitimate wiould send emails requesting those details and to check the url.

[W84N01]

If you ever get anything from PayPal asking to "update info", don't click on the URL provided, you go straight to your personal PayPal site and look into it from there. Get in contact with them yourself and ask the question.

I was getting the same thing from my Bank, asking me to update, so i rung my bank and asked the question and they gave me an email address to forward that email to as it was a scam, and they reckon the email i got was one of the more sophisticated ones.

There are email addresses to send the emails to, (ie: fraud squad and the like) if you get anything from anyone asking to "update details", ignore it and get in contact with that person/company direct....then you can go from there.

DON'T EVER CLICK ON LINKS IN EMAILS FROM COMPAINES EVEN PEOPLE YOU TRUST AS FRIENDS AS COMPUTERS CAN BE HACKED SPECIFICALLY FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE........majority of the time those links will download deadly viruses onto your hard drive and you've lost your computer. Always triple check with your friends first.....just keep yourself safe.

[Rolla_Rolla']

Well, looks like someone needs a corse, on "How to use the interwebz"

[UFO]

go here to report scam:

Report a scam

[ClairBear]

Well, looks like someone needs a corse, on "How to use the interwebz"

LOL, looks like you need to do a basic spelling course!

[UFO]

LOL, looks like you need to do a basic spelling course!

Please tel me you havent resorted to spell checking internet forums this Friday afternoon? Surely you arent that bored?

[Tim Smtih]

LOL, looks like you need to do a basic spelling course!

Don't hate the player. Or something, whatever it is kids are saying these days. And good luck to the OPs mum. My mother in law is fantastic, she spends half her time reading books from the library and asking me about the internets. It's one thing to use the internet and another to understand it (or, just because you have the tools doesn't mean you know how to use them).

[TheStateo]

yeah my mum is usually internet smart, i had a look at the scam page my self it looked very legit
but everything was a .jpg file except the login and the url was a .ru
but i would Imagen that the normal "internetz" user would be fooled because who wants to click anything else if you get told "you have to update your details"

[TheStateo]

so basicly you guys are saying its a wait and see game

[vsl67]

A fool and his money are soon parted. NEVER do anything online like this, especially those ****tards paypal (if anything i'd say i'd rather deal with the scammers than the real paypal).

I agree the scammers have more morals and honesty than compared to paypal

[Cobez]

Please tel me you havent resorted to spell checking internet forums this Friday afternoon? Surely you arent that bored?

No need to "spell check the forums" (whatever that means), anyone with a basic knowledge of spelling and grammer can see it plain and clear.


I hate Paypal and i refuse to use it.