Types of Scams
A person gets you to send a pic of your private parts and then threatens to send it to all your contacts unless you pay them money.
What is sextortion?
When someone files a tax return using all your information to get the refund.
What is tax identity theft?
You should always do this to any important papers that you no longer need that has personal information
What is Shred?
Contact your bank immediately & let them know
What is the first thing to do when you discover someone used your card without permission?
This government agency oversees & provides information on identity theft
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
This type of scam involving fake emails pretending to be from a trusted company?
What is Phishing?
When someone steals your identity to get medical services or prescriptions
What is Medical Identity Theft?
What is social security number?
Needed to be checked at least once per year to monitor accounts opened in your name.
What is the annual free credit report?
This type of malware holds and restricts user access to a computer until money is paid.
What is Ransome?
An attempt by hackers to damage or destroy a computer network or system
What is a cyber attack?
Occurs when someone uses a kids ssn and other data points to open new credit card accounts.
What is child identity theft?
Sends a secondary one-time password to an external device.
What is 2 Factor Authentication?
This alert should be placed on all your accounts after you realize they have been compromised.
What is a fraud alert?
Includes information such as name, birthday, address, work place, etc
What is your personal data?
When scammers swipe your credit card information without you knowing?
What is skimming?
This is what happens when a person uses bits of your information to create a new fake identity.
What is synthetic identity theft?
Not connecting to public wifi, using a vpn, not clicking on suspicious links, using different passwords
What are ways to prevent your identity from getting stolen?
A fraud alert will be placed for this length of time after an identity theft has been reported.
What is one year?
This is the most commonly used password in America.
What is Password123?
This scam mostly targets women and senior citizens, where the scammers take time building a relationship and gain trust to make the people fall in love with the scammer.
What is the Romance Scam?
This type of identity theft occurs when human features are cloned like a finger print.
What is Biometrics Identity theft?
Two of the three credit bureau companies that produce information known as a credit report.
A type of business that has been created to alert you if your social security number has been used on the dark web.
What is a credit monitoring system?
An intentional effort to deceive another individual for personal gain
What is fraud?