Believeing I was giving info to a valid source, my personal info was misused. How can I protect myself?

Question

I was approached about a job.

FIRST NAME...........................
LAST NAME.............................
ADDRESS................................
CITY........................................
STATE.....................................
ZIP CODE............................
COUNTRY.............................
PHONE NUMBER (S)........
GENDER...............................
MARITAL STATUS............
AGE.........................................
NATIONALITY...................

Answer 1

Its called phishing and data mining... and its big business.



Your best bet is to learn from this mistake and warn others about that scam.



The reason this scam is set up, is due to the fact that big corporations would just love to send you endorsements reminding you to buy their product, so they pay hackers/scam artists to go and fish (phone line+fish=phish) personal information from you.



or this information that is gathered could be used for identity theft.







So back to your question, how can I protect myself. The answer is you cant. You can only educate yourself and try and see an attack coming before it is too late.



Also if I were you I would be sure to review all of my bank records and credit score etc for any type of suspicious activity.







good luck and sorry

Answer 2

The first thing you should consider is that if this question had gone the other way -- reversing the order of Methodist and Catholicism -- your response from Catholics would not have been anywhere close to the condemnatory stuff you're seeing here. At the most, you'd have been urged to take a closer look at the Catechism and make sure you clearly understood what the Church teaches before making such a change. You would not have been told anything negative about the Methodist church. That, all by itself, should tell you something. The usual way for people to learn about Catholicism and, if they desire, come into the Church as a convert from another Christian faith community is to take RCIA classes. These are offered by almost every local parish church, and usually begin in the fall. A phone call to the nearest parish office will provide you with information about the classes. They are offered at no cost; the parishioners themselves pick up the tab for any materials. In the meantime, I often recommend a book called (believe it or not) "Catholicism for Dummies" because it provides a very readable yet thorough and accurate overview of Catholic beliefs as well as their basis in Scripture. There are other very good resources, as well, and you'll probably get some of them from others who answer this question. You'd be welcome, also, to e-mail me. I'm a convert as well, a former Baptist, and went through RCIA. God bless you on your journey.

Answer 3

don't give any personal info to any advertisement sent to you on the web that you did not personally ask for and know what it is about.



you cannot check on this company, but I can assure you they will sell your info to other companies so be forewarned.



if you have given your credit card info or bank info, contact them immediately and tell them the story, they can monitor your accounts and if you have been or will be charged for something you have paperwork to back up your story and you will not have to pay for this.

Answer 4

if you are using internet explorer you can change your browser to firefox or opera which checks the authenticity of sites you visit, you can avoid going to sites like monster.com (which pump out trojans) you can avoid phishing by checking if the URL adress is actually what its is supposed to before entering private information,



you can also try suing their pants off



to educate your self, go to sites like download.com, informationweek and read the daily articles about internet protection

Answer 5

maybe theres a way to get back to the place and take away that stuff