I never made an identity theft claim and have no business with that company, but it was sent to my email with my name and isn't asking me for anything. Plus all the contact info it provides for identity theft protection is legit.

they would not contact you by email

Sooo I'm not sure what's going on. But it made me uber paranoid all day. I requested a 90-day credit flag or whatever it's called to make it hard to open anything new under my name, and I had my Boston CU pull up my credit report (which is stellar and shows nothing suspicious)

Real Adult Stuff Uses Snail Mail

I feel like Real Adult Stuff uses both and the email gets there faster?

but idk. I just don't understand how it's phishing or a scam if it is.

email is never going to be the initial contact unless you're initiating

It claims I initiated

It has a claim number and account number

yeah sounds like a more polished than usual phishing scam

That's what I thought?? But it's legit not asking me for anything and all the "if you're worried about your identity, contact these" are all legit contacts.

hold on I'll screenshot

well it cant be legit if you didnt initiate a claim though

simple logic

you are the only person who can file identity theft claims

like, its probably luring you into going 'but I didnt initiate a claim'

if you did not, then i am 99.9% sure it is not legit

there's also the possibility someone entered your email address by accident

i had to unregister a starbucks rewards card because of that

especially if your real name's common

My old email account that I still use for stuff like Netflix has turned into a dumping ground because someone keeps entering the wrong email address when they sign up for stuff.

or, well, it's entered incorrectly on the sending end. I get official forms or appointment reminders all the time. I have to keep emailing people and saying, "This is not the person you want."

... that email address puzzles me

(now without full name i'm so good at this)

yeaaaaah that's not from directv

I looked up the email and it's a legit email customer service company blah blah

(like a lot of legit companies use the service)

per multiple legit sources

seriously? oh lord that would freak me out so bad

me too

anyway, give directv a call and be like "yo what's this?"

yeah same. I immediately assumed bullshit but then the email seems legit and, like I said, all contact info on it is legit

if everything else checks out, then i strongly suspect Mail Merge Fuckup

re: name... it's possible. the name on there is one letter off my actual name (which is my email), so it's POSSIBLE it's for a different person with my similar name

your email your name?

fake fake fake fake, id theft claims go through the government

Yeah. The thing is my last name is much much much more common if you add an S to the end, which everyone has done all my life. So like.. in the addressing, it adds the S, which my email doesn't have.

direct tv would not be sending this

directv would not send a thing about identity theft for signing up for an acct with them? even though they have an id theft dept?

if someone's autofilling a form from a list of email addresses in their system

the version without the s will pop up first

I think you're right that I might as well give them a call

they might, but id theft claims are filed through the government first

well fo sho. but, like I said, I think it's a weird scam if it is since it's not asking for anything or providing sketchy contact info

i suspect the hypothetical ang-with-an-s would like to know that her account is safe

(worst scam ever)

rofl maybe I should forward it to them and be like "is this you"

autofill/mis-entered email fuckery is so common

so if it was really meant for you, you'd have had to file it initially, through the government

biowafers: yeah, I understand what you're saying.

So it's more likely another Angela

yeah, that seems like it could be a legit mix up

I forwarded it to the other angela email to see what they say, hahaha

thanks for the advice and reassurance chums

identity theft scares teh shit out of me

the government is paying for a super-expensive identity protection service for me because all my shit was compromised in a dod leak

i know this feel

gross :c