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Comment on Ask HN: My grandfather was a target of a scam using my informationparent

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Whitepages.com has a "associated with" that contains all sorts of relatives without social media accounts or Internet access and that's just public. Your name probably ended up in an obituary at some point in time They scammer surely has access to the paid private databases, same as the PIs and background check companies use. You know those "verify your identity" questions you get asked when opening a bank account or something? Those "what was your car payment for your 2005 Toyota Corolla" questions? One of them asked me who I knew and one of the choices was my ex. How we got linked in a database is beyond me. We never shared an address, bank account, credit card, last name, nothing. We weren't even all that serious. There's so much info out there in databases. No need to jump to totally unfounded conclusions.

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