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Does a company have to have your login information to verify your identity?
No. Anyone who asks for your username and password is very likely a scammer. Access to id.me is especially valuable as it would allow the scammer to essentially steal your whole online identity. Make ...
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Somebody sent me a check to deposit into my account, but I now think that it's a scam. will I get in trouble?
The check is most likely fraudulent/forged, and will eventually bounce. The scam is to convince you to convert most of that money to bitcoin to which the scammer then would have access and would ...
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Somebody sent me a check to deposit into my account, but I now think that it's a scam. will I get in trouble?
Tl;DR
There is no money and there is no girl.
Someone's Facebook got hacked and the scammer has chosen you as a target.
I wouldn't mind taking $1600 off of a scammer, but if there's a chance that ...
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Somebody sent me a check to deposit into my account, but I now think that it's a scam. will I get in trouble?
I'm afraid it's almost certainly a scam. She sent you a cheque for $1600 then asked you to invest $1400 of it in a bitcoin account for her? You're right to be suspicious.
If it was a cheque and you ...
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