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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20140111 20:07:00

we don t know. originally we thant credit card and debit numbers, pin numbers, expiration dates. now that s expanded to include your personal information. the information we re talking about is your name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail addresses, and the reason why that can be crucial is that people could use that information to then contact you and kind of dupe you in to thinking that they know more about you than they should. all the ingredients of identity fraud. absolutely. stealing your identity. there are ways to protect yourself. as we talk about this, talking about it with target, seems basic, obvious, but these are the steps want to take to make sure you protect yourself, and some of the steps are, mont are bank statements. anything on the statement that seems out of the ordinary, even a $1 charge, contact your bank and make sure it s legitimate. don t click on strange links e-mailed to you. we mentioned, targeted, the they got your e-mail address. don t cli

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom 20140111 21:07:00

people may e-mail you looking for other information. don t click on anything you don t know where it s coming from. be aware of fishing scams. anyone looking for extra information from you. you can contact a credit monitoring service. target is offering this for their customers for free for a year because of the situation there. it s a good idea to do any ways if you think you might be a victim. let s talk about niemann marcus. this is something that they said they were alerted to in mid-december. it took until january 1st for a forensic team to determine that there was fraud at the department store. they are working with the secret service now with forensic team. they seem to be uncovered more information and because they know they are a victim of this cyber security fraud, that means that customers are also victims in this case. so far they don t know how widespread it is. the other unknown is what was

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110413:15:48:00

the better business bureau says stay on the lookout for fishing scams. popular e-mail scheme where hackers try to get your e-mail, your log-ins, passwords or credit card information via e-mail. for example, the better business bureau says it s seen e-mails sent from a phony bank to look like it s coming from your bank. if you get an e-mail that looks like it s from your bank saying your account will be deactivate ord deleted if you don t update your profile immediately. anything that looks like that is probably a fishing scam. i ve gotten those before. it s very good advice. reporter: me, too, yeah i. have gotten those. consumers, how do they protect yir information in they their they a targets of this fishing scam? reporter: well, right. for the e-mails we were just talking about we both received. the bbb says never reply. if the message includes a link, never click on it, because it could contain a virus. that would be awful. even if they claim they are from your bank, the irs

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111112:23:22:45

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111112:23:22:45
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