Three new identity theft schemes using the phone

ConsumerAffairs.com has an article on 3 new ways scammers can steal your sensitive data. But it’s not really new overall, it’s just a different twist on pretexting. Someone calls you posing as someone else in order to get confidential data, maybe a PIN number, account number or social security number. The take away, as always, is don’t give out sensitive data over the phone in almost all cases, and only when you initiated the call and know who you are talking to (even then be careful what you tell people).