So, I just received an email and text message that I had opened a savings account with a major bank I have never previously used. I didn’t open any links on the texts or email. I went to the major bank’s website directly from Google and called their fraud department. They confirmed there was an account under my name and closed it. I am filing a fraud report with the credit bureaus. I always have my credit frozen.
What is the scam here? What could some one do with a savings account linked to both my email and number?
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They might not have been trying to directly scam you, but with access to the account then all their activity would point to you instead of them. Or maybe they took your identity in other ways and they needed this account to get payments.
Kind of like a kid stealing an ID to get into bars. They’re not really scamming you, you were just the unlucky name they chose to copy.
But I’m no con artist, so there may be deeper problems to watch out for.
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