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Possibility of identity theft?

#1 User is offline   andrewcake 

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Posted 29 May 2011 - 12:16 AM

Hello!

I was not entirely sure where to post this topic so I chose this forum seeing as it seemed the place to put it.
Anyways my mom is not the most technologically smart person in the world, and she knows nothing of phishing attacks.
I literally just caught her like 15 minutes ago filling in information to a "WalMart Gift Card" site. She did this
by using the Bing! search engine, searching WalMart, and clicking on the "sponsored" link that said "Official WalMart"
website. After this she said she filled in information, and decided to stop because it asked for her cell phone
number. Being the paranoid generalized anxiety disordered person I am, I got really worried that she might have given
more information that she was willing to tell me. (She claims she only gave her address and name, but I don't believe her,
as well as don't believe her when she told me it was the first time she ever did this sort of thing). So, my question is,
is there any possibility of identity theft? Should I be worried? I know that some websites can retrieve information without
having a new page loaded or a continuation of the "information process" (although she did hit the continue button anyways).
Thanks to anyone who helps me out!


Andrew

This post has been edited by hamluis: 29 May 2011 - 10:34 AM
Reason for edit: Moved from Am I Infected to AV, Firewall, etc.


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Posted 30 May 2011 - 09:48 AM

Can you find back the URL of the presumed phishing site? For example by looking into the browser history?
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Posted 30 May 2011 - 12:09 PM

You can actually get to it just by using Bing, then searching for Walmart and clicking the very first link.

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Posted 30 May 2011 - 05:24 PM

According to VirusTotal, it's not a phishing site:
http://www.virustotal.com/url-scan/report.html?id=b3cb009ea956638826e33a1aea2c6ce4-1306787028
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Posted 30 May 2011 - 10:03 PM

Ok, thank you. That just relieved a lot of stress.

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