People Fight Scams Back
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY --- It seems like every day we hear another scam about someone that's trying to take your identity and money. But more people are now fighting back.
Lynn Harden was involved in a phone scam about six months ago. The people calling tried to phish for his credit card numbers. But he didn't fall for it. "Basically if they were going to have the ability to reduce my interest rates, they should have had all the information," Lynn Harden reasoned then. Instead, he made a call to police. "They had received a number of calls that same day," Harden said.
From phone scams to phishing e-mails more people, like Harden, are fighting the fraud. The latest Identity Fraud Survey Report shows nearly half of all victims nationwide now file police reports, resulting in double the reported arrests, and double the percent of convictions in 2009. "It would make sense to prosecute something like that because identity theft is a pretty big issue," Charles Lehman shrugged.
Matt Page also avoids I.D. theft. "It's very scary if you don't know what you're getting into." It’s a very scary thing that Harden says he watches even closer for now. "Don't give out information. Do the fishing instead of allowing them to fish for the information," he learned.
For the phonies trying to fool people; their day is darkening as more people are fighting back. The study also noted a shift in the way attackers get your information. They used to just ask for your information online. But now a new page pops up where you key in information by accident. Always check the web address of those sites before you type.
Lynn Harden was involved in a phone scam about six months ago. The people calling tried to phish for his credit card numbers. But he didn't fall for it. "Basically if they were going to have the ability to reduce my interest rates, they should have had all the information," Lynn Harden reasoned then. Instead, he made a call to police. "They had received a number of calls that same day," Harden said.
From phone scams to phishing e-mails more people, like Harden, are fighting the fraud. The latest Identity Fraud Survey Report shows nearly half of all victims nationwide now file police reports, resulting in double the reported arrests, and double the percent of convictions in 2009. "It would make sense to prosecute something like that because identity theft is a pretty big issue," Charles Lehman shrugged.
Matt Page also avoids I.D. theft. "It's very scary if you don't know what you're getting into." It’s a very scary thing that Harden says he watches even closer for now. "Don't give out information. Do the fishing instead of allowing them to fish for the information," he learned.
For the phonies trying to fool people; their day is darkening as more people are fighting back. The study also noted a shift in the way attackers get your information. They used to just ask for your information online. But now a new page pops up where you key in information by accident. Always check the web address of those sites before you type.
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