Shortly after signing up to get my free credit score at one of the popular websites that offers the service, I received an email alerting me that my score had recently changed and that I should log into the site provided to check on it. Since I had recently signed up for my free score, I almost fell for the scam and followed the link, which could have compromised my personal information.<\/p>\n
The information technology team at U.S. News reports that our company received about 140 spam messages in the last week with the words \u201cscore changes\u201d in the subject line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The article outlines 6 ways to protect yourself. One of the most important skills is knowing how to check the domain name in the address of any links with that of the sender’s and that of the company asserted by the sender.<\/p>\n
Skepticism about any email regarding your credit score is a good policy. Links in such emails also can take you to web sites which may infect your computer with malware.<\/p>\n
P.S.<\/p>\n
As a technical note, the “.com” host IP address in the (raw) complete message header can be bogus itself. Just another cyber criminal trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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