I fell (like the dense mf I evidently am) for one of those post-office scams that tell you to book another delivery slot. To be fair, it only asked for the £1.45 AFTER asking for my data (email, name, birth date, adress, number).
I provided my data and then realised at the payment page I had indeed almost been scammed.
Is there some way to protect my data now after giving it away?
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Register with Experian (other other types of sites) and report anything unusual that you see. On Experian you can also set up an extra password so any credit applications that use them then ask for this. Also look on Transunion to raise other disputes. I’d pay for Cifas protection which is other level of security, and would flag your details when doing hard searches to stop fraudulent ones being carried out. Check my file is another one worth registering. Also report on actionfraud and give as much details as you can to get a crime reference number to give to Experian and other credit brokers which can help link any fraudulent searches and applications in your name.
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Also check your post regularly if you have communal mail room. I had some post intercepted and had to deal with this and managed to catch a credit card that was delivered to my own address and before it got stolen from my post box.
don’t forget to sand off your finger prints.
Set up 2FA with all of your accounts, be they your mobile, email, bank, e-tailer, game platform, netflix, or whatever else. One of the ways in which these details can be used is as a means to gain access to or recover passwords from various telephone or internet-based services.