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March 25, 2008
So, identity theft. It’s a huge deal online, more so than in real life, but then again ‘online’ is real life, right? Today I got a call from a long time client telling me ‘they accept my new terms’…what new terms? After talking to them for a bit, I am shocked to find out, someone with the email (rnichaelkane@yahoo.com - which I guess looks like michaelkane@yahoo.com - the r and n together trick one into believing it’s just an m) claimed to be Michael Kane, me!! They went on to tell my client that an update on their site was necessary and that a bug was found and should be patched up before it gets exploited, they go on to giving my client wire details and stating payment should be made immediately (They even gave them a 30% discount on a fabricated fee as they were current clients) and that was that.
I told my client not to pay, obviously and have now sent these crooks an email, and one to Yahoo! Hopefully this will get resolved before something nasty comes of this. In the mean time, I have forwarded an official letter to all my clients noting that all emails from that said email address should be disregarded and deleted. Same goes to all my online contacts.
Be careful of online identity thieves!
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