I got a letter in the mail, purporting to be from LexisNexis, advising that personally identifiable information may have been stolen by Yomi Jagunna. I did find news articles about this guy. He and his crime ring were convicted of conspiracy to commit ID theft. Essentially, they posed as a commercial business just to obtain ID info to steal from various firms, such as LexisNexis, from 2002 - 2008.
Something that concerns me about this letter is that they refer me to consumerinfo.com. They have been slammed as being a rather shady credit monitoring company. They were fined by the FTC for charging hidden fees for failing to cancel services and not providing clear ways to cancel the services. Apparently, this is still going on and further lawsuits have been raised against them.
Obviously, if this is legit, I want to take steps to protect myself. Has anyone else received such a letter, or is this just some 'scare tactic' to get me to join consumerinfo.com's service?
Something that concerns me about this letter is that they refer me to consumerinfo.com. They have been slammed as being a rather shady credit monitoring company. They were fined by the FTC for charging hidden fees for failing to cancel services and not providing clear ways to cancel the services. Apparently, this is still going on and further lawsuits have been raised against them.
Obviously, if this is legit, I want to take steps to protect myself. Has anyone else received such a letter, or is this just some 'scare tactic' to get me to join consumerinfo.com's service?
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