I applied to a job posting at the craiglist (which I know, I shouldn’t have) and sent the “company” my resume with my name, full, address, tel. nos., e-mail, educational info, and volunteer history. No birthday, age, SSN, or anything like that.
It didn’t click to me that the post might have been a scam, until I sent them my resume. The e-mail account that the poster had was a gmail account. I never had a formal job before, and I have no-credit. Am I at a risk of being an identity theft victim?
I apologize for the delay in getting back to you on this. But, bottom line, I don’t think you greatly increased your identity theft risk in what you did. I base that mainly on the fact that most the the information you provided is already public record. You many have conveniently put your public information all in one place for someone, but you did not provide your DOB or your Social Security number, the two key bits of information that would have made the rest of the information more profitable.
There are many scams on Craigslist, however, the majority of the job listings are bona fide. Are you sure this was a scam? If you are sure, make sure you report it to Cragslist because they are very good at dealing with scam listings.
If you are still concerned about this issue, you might consider getting yourself an Identity Theft protection plan. I would be glad to talk with you about the plans that I know about. It might give you that peace of mind!
Keeping in mind the quality information and services of your site, we are planning to add link to your site in one of our community site / blogs and get a link to our site from yours.
Please advise whether we should go ahead.
Thanks again for your good work, awaiting for your earliest reply
You’ve built up quite a nice blog with useful info for your visitors I will mention it on my personal blog for sure! I’m trying to get more exposure for a new project that I’m working on and it’s hard to find quality blogs such as yours. Trying not to waste your time or to disturb you, I was wondering if you could add an extra link to your blogroll to the project I’m working on?
Project’s short story: It all started after I’ve obtained an MBA in finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, and I was invited to write some financial articles for big publications at that time(such as Forbes, Moneyweek, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, etc). In time I’ve made a lot of great friends and we’ve started working as a team, and with the help from the feedback of our readers we’ve created FindingABalance.org, a financial information portal. The website started as a hobby, but lately turned out to be our passion.
In view of the recent email address data breach by Epsilon and Sony. I would like to introduce you to a new concept, Closed Group Messaging (CMG). Imagine a private inbox accessible only to your contacts (family, friends, colleagues, etc). Imagine being able to give your user id out to the world and not get a single SPAM message. And the icing on the cake, all messages sent and received (within the closed group) along with their attachments are encrypted at the transport level using 256-bit symmetric encryption. Yes, mailing your tax returns is safe.
To make it even sweeter let us add message types like Flash messages that are automatically deleted from the recipients inbox, the very first time they read it. Among other message types there are messages that cannot be forwarded and messages that expire on a certain date.
I would like to introduce you to NijiMail, pronounced knee jee mail. NijiMail is not email or an alternate to email. It is an addition to email. The closest analogy I can give is the home landline and the cell phone. Email is like land line, public, open, listed in the directory can be called by telemarketers and strangers. NijiMail like cell phone is private and known only to your contacts. NijiMail goes beyond. It is like a cell phone with a scrambler and descrambler built in. So eve droppers can only listen to garbled speech.
Hi, I came across your site and wasn’t able to get an email address to contact you. Would you please consider adding a link to my website on your page. Please email me back.
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Kay | March 26, 2009 at 5:26 pm
I applied to a job posting at the craiglist (which I know, I shouldn’t have) and sent the “company” my resume with my name, full, address, tel. nos., e-mail, educational info, and volunteer history. No birthday, age, SSN, or anything like that.
It didn’t click to me that the post might have been a scam, until I sent them my resume. The e-mail account that the poster had was a gmail account. I never had a formal job before, and I have no-credit. Am I at a risk of being an identity theft victim?
2.
Candace Davenport | April 5, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Hi Kay-
I apologize for the delay in getting back to you on this. But, bottom line, I don’t think you greatly increased your identity theft risk in what you did. I base that mainly on the fact that most the the information you provided is already public record. You many have conveniently put your public information all in one place for someone, but you did not provide your DOB or your Social Security number, the two key bits of information that would have made the rest of the information more profitable.
There are many scams on Craigslist, however, the majority of the job listings are bona fide. Are you sure this was a scam? If you are sure, make sure you report it to Cragslist because they are very good at dealing with scam listings.
If you are still concerned about this issue, you might consider getting yourself an Identity Theft protection plan. I would be glad to talk with you about the plans that I know about. It might give you that peace of mind!
I hope this answers your question.
Candace Davenport
3.
Jack | June 22, 2009 at 2:05 am
Hi Webmaster,
Let me congratulate for maintaining such a wonderful site here:
http://www.identitytheftforum.net
Keeping in mind the quality information and services of your site, we are planning to add link to your site in one of our community site / blogs and get a link to our site from yours.
Please advise whether we should go ahead.
Thanks again for your good work, awaiting for your earliest reply
Regards,
Jack
4.
Jack | June 22, 2009 at 2:06 am
martin.jack0007@gmail.com
5.
Judy Robinson | March 29, 2011 at 2:52 am
Hello,
You’ve built up quite a nice blog with useful info for your visitors I will mention it on my personal blog for sure! I’m trying to get more exposure for a new project that I’m working on and it’s hard to find quality blogs such as yours. Trying not to waste your time or to disturb you, I was wondering if you could add an extra link to your blogroll to the project I’m working on?
Project url: http://www.findingabalance.org
Project’s short story: It all started after I’ve obtained an MBA in finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, and I was invited to write some financial articles for big publications at that time(such as Forbes, Moneyweek, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, etc). In time I’ve made a lot of great friends and we’ve started working as a team, and with the help from the feedback of our readers we’ve created FindingABalance.org, a financial information portal. The website started as a hobby, but lately turned out to be our passion.
Your link could make the difference!
6.
Ram | May 2, 2011 at 11:09 am
In view of the recent email address data breach by Epsilon and Sony. I would like to introduce you to a new concept, Closed Group Messaging (CMG). Imagine a private inbox accessible only to your contacts (family, friends, colleagues, etc). Imagine being able to give your user id out to the world and not get a single SPAM message. And the icing on the cake, all messages sent and received (within the closed group) along with their attachments are encrypted at the transport level using 256-bit symmetric encryption. Yes, mailing your tax returns is safe.
To make it even sweeter let us add message types like Flash messages that are automatically deleted from the recipients inbox, the very first time they read it. Among other message types there are messages that cannot be forwarded and messages that expire on a certain date.
I would like to introduce you to NijiMail, pronounced knee jee mail. NijiMail is not email or an alternate to email. It is an addition to email. The closest analogy I can give is the home landline and the cell phone. Email is like land line, public, open, listed in the directory can be called by telemarketers and strangers. NijiMail like cell phone is private and known only to your contacts. NijiMail goes beyond. It is like a cell phone with a scrambler and descrambler built in. So eve droppers can only listen to garbled speech.
Regards,
Ram
http://www.nijimail.com
Spam free secure messaging for all!
PS: my NijiMail id: Ram
7.
Harry | February 21, 2012 at 3:36 am
Hi, I came across your site and wasn’t able to get an email address to contact you. Would you please consider adding a link to my website on your page. Please email me back.
Thanks!
Harry
harry.roger10@gmail.com