Anyone Else Get This Letter
 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
BUREAU OF PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICS AND INFORMATICS


"Dear New Hampshire Resident:

On the next few weeks an adult member or your household will be randomly selected to participate in a telephone health survey."

Anyone else get this letter ?

My last name is on the outside envelope but no name on letter inside.
Just Dear New Hampshire Resident.

And where and how did the state of New Hampshire obtain the telephone number ?

Anyone else get this letter
 

Recently, it seems, the number of "scam" or "fraud" telephone calls and postal mail has increased. It is to the point where I am leery of ALL phone calls, even those with a 'caller ID' I recognize. Phone scammers can make their call look like it is coming from someplace you would be apt to recognize, and therefore answer the phone. Just remember, NEVER, NEVER use the Y E S word when talking to someone you really do not know. Word-shopping (analagous to "photo-shopping") can get you into trouble before you realize the call is "fraud". In many cases the mail you get through the post office may look very official, but isn't official at all.
What's the answer - be careful, and suspicious.

I agree and the problem is one of these days we are going to get something that's real and discard it!

Latest scam is on property deeds. To try and protect your deeds, check the Registry of Deeds web site for your county and see if they have software available to notify you if ANYONE tries to record something against your property. I have read this is a growing problem in NH. Here is the link for carroll County....
https://www.propertyfraudalert.com/NHCarroll

I always toss these. I don't feel the need to answer random personal questions to the government and/or to people I do not know.

If this is the letter you got, it should be legit — this is from the official website:

https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/sites/g/file...tif-letter.pdf

As to how the State of NH obtained your phone number, are you kidding? Unless you live in a cave, have no utilities, don't subscribe to anything, have no insurance, etc., hundreds of people & entities have your telephone number.

If you don't want to participate in the survey just say so if they call. It's not mandatory.

Companies like "Title Lock" claim someone may steal your property by forging a tile transfer, taking out loans using your property as collateral and when the default occurs, you lose your home.

No one is going to lose their home if someone gets a loan against your property by changing the title. It's the lender that loses by not doing the due-diligence to make sure of an accurate title.

All these companies do is notify you that someone has taken an action on your title. That's it. They do nothing further to prevent the transfer nor to undo it if it happens.

If you get a letter from some mortgage company claiming you're in default, call them an notify them that the problem is theirs.

It is amazing how many scams are out there!

A week ago, I clicked on a link in an email that looked like it came from a friend. It didn't, he had been hacked. The link didn't open anything so I deleted it and shut my laptop off. The next morning I noticed that someone had used Zelle to send themselves $990 from my TD Bank checking account.

An hour and a half on the phone with McAfee and they found a "log-me-in" link on my computer that had been installed when I clicked on the link. So, because the Zelle transaction came from my IP address TD bank has thus far denied the claim.

I don't think the bank is doing much to recover the funds. The TD Fraud department did tell me the persons name and the fact that the money went to Navy Federal Credit Union. Navy Federal won't talk to me about someone else's account.

Oh well, lesson learned. Maybe I should be thankful it was only $990.

I’m a little technology challenged…many of us old guys are but I don’t do any on line banking.Seen so many stories about hacking ,just don t want to take the chance

I feel the same. They always keep asking me to use it and I keep saying no. I don't need any more hassles.

TD Bank
 

About 10 days ago, I got a call from TD Bank telling me they were restricting my checking account because of fraud on the account. "Please come in, in person, to open a new account. We can't discuss on the phone." Good for them. Eventually, they told me somebody in Phoenix, AZ was trying to access the account and since that was geographically strange, they automatically took action. Automatic deposits would still go through, but no payments would go out. The hardest part of the new account was conjuring up new user name and password.

A few days later, apparently unrelated, somebody hacked into my computer, claiming to be from Microsoft.

No money actually taken, but I froze credit cards and other bank/broker accounts. TD's fraud dept put a temporary freeze on my new checking account. Fidelity suggested getting my computer "professionally cleaned" which I did. They found and removed some apps that probably would not have shown up on the usual home remedy malware apps. Wife and I do not have joint accounts or shared credit cards so we can always have access to services even if somebody steals a wallet while we are traveling. My local computer service (CEJ Computer) can access our computers and the "professional cleaning" just took a phone call. With fraud involved, the local PD was quick to send an officer by to take a report and give guidance. They can't do a lot with out of state scammers, but keeping track makes it better if there are continued local issues so they're happy to assist.

A nuisance but no harm done.

Tilton, I havent heard of this embedded log-me-in link. Did you have Two Factor Authentication on your account and if so, does the link get around this somehow?

I have had people use "Log-me-in" to remotely repair my computer. You can give them access and actually sit there and watch the mouse move when they run your computer. They have accessed screens that I didn't even know existed and are generally very knowledgeable and able to correct issues.

To answer your question, worse than that, I had password manager on my computer so it automatically loads my password for every site I (or the scammers) use. My bad! My previous understanding was that I had to permit someone to log in but whatever I clicked on put software on my computer that allowed remote operation without my permission.

Password Manager is fine for most sites, but not for banking or investment sites. I learned that the hard way! I should have paid more attention to those things. With what they could have done, losing $990 is a small price to pay.