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So around 11am this morning I started getting TONS and TONS of confirmation emails in my Gmail for various newsletters, online accounts, password resets to websites I've never visited, and so on. Many were for overseas/foreign sites. I am a diligent inbox zero person so I was frantically selecting & reporting spam and it was coming in way faster than I could keep up with it.

I googled "suddenly receiving lots of spam in email" and discovered I was being spam bombed... and the typical reason for this is because the spammers are trying to hide an order email. I looked through all my emails and there it was... someone in Atlanta was getting a $2200 purse delivered from Nieman Marcus and put it on my AmEx.

I immediately logged into my AmEx account and froze the card, and called them to report fraud. They shut off my card and are mailing me a new one. I was also able to call Nieman Marcus to report the order as a fraudulent transaction, and they were able to cancel the order before it shipped out.

I've changed all my passwords and ensured my 2FA is up to date and enabled on everything, and I put a freeze on my credit with the three bureaus (probably overkill, but eh who knows). I'm running a malware scan right now on my computer, my phone comes up as clean.

Anything else I'm missing?

Also, here's what I don't get.... if a criminal is using a stolen CC to order something... why send the order receipt to the target's email address?? The flood has slowed to a trickle but I've received over 2,000 emails so far.



Submitted June 01, 2021 at 07:18PM by southbound2016 https://ift.tt/3fD7Spg

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