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It's worse than that.

I got a call with the caller id of my (credit union) credit card company. They had my name and address, knew I had a card, and were claiming they were investigating fraudulent charges. It sounded more official than my actual credit card company. The only real things to tip me off was that the list of fraudulent charges kept changing, and they were super keen on me reading the entire credit card number back to them.

There were never any fraudulent charges, and the actual fraud department didn't seem to care.

I'm guessing it was due to the Experian leak.



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