Online Identity Theft

Spoof Email Hoax scams and Fake Web Pages or Sites

Part Six

What if I've identified the Spoof too late?

If you've fallen victim to a hoax email scam and/or a bogus web page, then you need to act very quickly. Complete the following in the order shown...

Call your Credit Card company and tell them that your account may be compromised (do everything that they tell you to do). If you had more than one card registered with the sites involved, you will have to call each and every one of them.

Call your bank tell them that your account details may have been compromised and how this occured (do everything that they ask you to).

Change your password on your email account - the one that you have registered with the relevant site - such as eBay or Paypal - and therefore the one that you use to receive emails from these sites.

Change passwords on the relevant sites. If you cannot log into your accounts then the fraudsters may have already changed the passwords, go to the next step...

Contact the websites involved and not only should you tell them that your account may have been compromised, but you should also include a copy of the email which led to the problem.

Make a report to the Police (yes, even though it is a long winded and frustratingly time consuming process).

**Report to us it using our dedicated Spoof Email and Phishing Scam Report Form so that we can advise the rest of the internet community

We should now look at what we can do to prevent becoming a victim of a spoof...