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Identity Theft

  • 22-04-2010 11:09am
    #1
    vedwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭


    Hi Boards,

    received an email in my @hotmail.com account with Travel Documents of flights from London to another county and return. Full booking details. I'm now in a panic because I can't find my passport. I can't remember if an Irish passport has my email address contact on it. Is this just a phishing email or should I worry?


Comments

  • #2
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Just had a look at my passport and there is no email address on it.

    Do the travel documents have your details in them?


  • #3
    LoLth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    irish passports dont have email contacts on them. They are valid for 10 years and there is no guarantee that an email account will be around for that long.

    Contact the travel agency directly (not through any links or numbers in the email) and check if the emailed details match anythign they have booked.


  • #4
    vedwards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 244 ✭✭vedwards


    syklops wrote: »
    Just had a look at my passport and there is no email address on it.

    Do the travel documents have your details in them?
    Only Name in Full, Flight number, last four digits of credit card...not mine, baggage details and dates. The flights were booked directly through the airline and not through a travel agent.
    Is it possible that it's a genuine mistake...perhaps the person typed in the account name incorrectly ...and it still awaiting flight details? Although, there are two separate flights to the same destination + return in my inbox. I looked up my name in the phonebook of the foreign destination and there are a good few with the same surname but no one with the combination of Christian & Surname.


  • #5
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Well, perhaps Adam Smith has a similar hotmail account as you and mistyped the mail?

    adamsmith01@hotmail.com instead of adamsmith10@hotmail.com

    Since it's not your credit card it doesn't seem like "proper" ID theft, unless they have your passport. It doesn't make sense they'd steal that and then mail details to you.


  • #6
    ttm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭ttm


    Check the email header to get a good idea if any email is genuine.

    The information about the IP address that the email was sent from can't be changed so if an email is supposed to come from, for example, an Irish Airline and the IP address on the email is an address in China then very good chance its a fake.

    Depending on the email program you are using google "how to check email header in" (without the quotes) and put email app at the end as in "how to check email header in hotmail"

    Edit> http://www.abika.com/Reports/Samples/emailheaderguide.htm has the info for web based hotmail near the bottom

    Once you have the IP address from the header goto somewhere like www.dnsstuff.com and do a whois of the IP address and it will give you info about the address.


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