UKFCU Fraud Awareness Center

You Have Been Caught: Where To Go For Help!

If you suspect you’ve been hooked by a phisher, act immediately. If you provided account numbers, passwords or PINs to a phisher, notify the companies with whom you have the accounts right away. For information about how to put a “fraud alert” on your files at the credit reporting bureaus and other advice for ID theft victims, contact the Federal Trade Commission’s ID Theft Clearinghouse by clicking here or call toll-free 877-438-4338. The TDD number is 202-326-2502.

Even if you didn’t get hooked, you should report phishing by contacting the National Fraud Information Center/Internet Fraud Watch. Log onto
www.fraud.org to report phishing incidents or call toll-free 800-876-7060, TDD 202-835-0778. You should also tell the company or agency that the phisher was impersonating. The information you provide helps to stop identity theft.

Other identity theft help sites:

http://www.identitytheft.org/

www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/idtheft.html

www.idtheftcenter.org/index.htm

For this article and more information on phishing go to: http://www.phishinginfo.org/