Got my Anthem hacking letter today...

[ame]

And spent all morning renewing my long-term credit freezes, filing and renewing new fraud alerts, contacting Innovis for the fraud and freezes there (the 4th bureau--make sure you alert them too), and getting the free monitoring through the service they are offering -- Ive used that company before but cancelled bec it was pricy, so Ill use it free for two years at least.

Joy of joys!

Need DH to get up so we can do all of his.

 

[Loves Vintage]

Funny. I did not receive mine today. However, I did receive letters from Anthem in the names of two prior owners here -- one of which hasn't been here for over 10 years at least. Odd.

Also funny, but not really. Someone e-filed tax returns for both me and my DH, and tried to get a completely nonsense (i.e., no factual basis -- they just made everything up) refund direct deposited into a bank account on the other side of the country. I do not think it was a fraud resulting from the Anthem information because Anthem never had my DH's info, just mine. The fraudulent filers also had EINs for each of our employers. Also, odd.

We found out about it because bank-across-the-country denied the IRS' attempt to direct deposit, so IRS sent us a check instead at correct address, as stated on return.

 

[ame]

Funny. I did not receive mine today. However, I did receive letters from Anthem in the names of two prior owners here -- one of which hasn't been here for over 10 years at least. Odd.

Also funny, but not really. Someone e-filed tax returns for both me and my DH, and tried to get a completely nonsense (i.e., no factual basis -- they just made everything up) refund direct deposited into a bank account on the other side of the country. I do not think it was a fraud resulting from the Anthem information because Anthem never had my DH's info, just mine. The fraudulent filers also had EINs for each of our employers. Also, odd.

We found out about it because bank-across-the-country denied the IRS' attempt to direct deposit, so IRS sent us a check instead at correct address, as stated on return.

Oh god. That is messed up! We mailed ours in bec we owe Federal but have a small State Refund. I am fully anticipating that we will get that letter saying that someone tried to file ours.

 

[smitcompton]

Hi,


Must be notification days for banks. I got one from my credit card company telling me they were issuing me a new card due to a breach at a merchant that I may possibly have used. No mention of the merchant/ What do you make of that. Since when is that something that they thought they didn't have to mention. I haven't called them yet, but I find it sort of secretive. Why don't they mention who the merchant was?

Thanks,

Annette

 

[ame]

That drives me insane. Somehow the merchants privacy trumps yours. I hate it. I flipped out at AMEX for that