A telephone company called you requesting to pay overdue bill on telephone call. You were shocked upon knowing the amount to be paid. The telephone number of the person that called you came from other country. How on earth do you have such a bill when you don't even have a conversation to someone in that country to a telephone number not known to you.
Most of this type of fraud happened when someone got a phone number in her name and her personal information that enabled him to open an account in her name.
How can you avoid this kind of fraud?
-Be extra careful in handling all your personal and bank information. Once it will be in the hands of the crooks, it can change you overnight.
-Any confidential information should not be placed anywhere. It should be stored in your safe deposit box. Never put your financial information and bank information in your office table. Leave it at home. Or, put it in a place more secured under lock and key.
-Don't write any of this information in a piece of paper and then throw away in your waste basket. Tear it up or burn them.
-Don't inform anyone of any of your confidential information. Make it a point to be more secretive.
-If you are being charge with an unreasonable amount not of your own making, report it to the nearest fraud watchdog and let it be recorded for future reference of the same incident.
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