<p>While I was using my iPad today, my Facetime app popped up and it said that someone was trying to reach me. I didn’t accept the call but it piqued my curiosity. I googled the phone number and it came up with a woman in Brooklyn. It gave her address, phone number, drivers license number, and credit card information. Very Suspicious. I don’t know what to make of it. The person trying to contact me had to have my personal email address in order to FaceTime me. Now I’m getting a bit worried. Am I overreacting?</p>
<p>Probably. It’s just another form of spam. They can get your email anywhere. </p>
<p>Try googling your own phone number and see if the same info comes up.</p>
<p>When I googled our home phone number, I don’t come up with anything. I would be very shocked if it came up with a website that had my name, address, phone number, drivers license information, and all of my credit card information.</p>
<p>You can also Facetime through a cell phone number - maybe she entered yours by mistake.</p>
<p>Yeah- I would have answered and said, “Sorry. Wrong number!”</p>
<p>If the person didn’t call back, odds are that it was a wrong number and the person tried again…and got the person they really wanted.</p>
<p>My FaceTime is set up so that someone has to type in my email address, not my phone number, to get in touch with me. So this person had my email address.</p>
<p>I never answer if it’s a wrong number because they may be just fishing and trying to find phone numbers that actually have people who will respond. I think it’s sometimes random digit dialing. Since we got the caller ID for our land line, we rarely get callers that leave messages any more for various causes and donations. This makes us very happy.</p>
<p>Folks sometimes do misdial or call someone who MAY have had your phone number previously. Wouldn’t freak out.</p>
<p>Let me repeat this again. When someone tries to reach me on FaceTime, they don’t dial my phone number, they have to input my email address. This is not a case of someone just dialing the wrong number.</p>
<p>For those of you who are not familiar with FaceTime, it’s similar to Skype where you make a video call on your IPad or iPhone. This happened on my iPad. I don’t own an iPhone.</p>
<p>Not familiar with FaceTime, but based on your description it sounds like the equivalent of getting a spam email, something that happens to me 20 to 50 times every day, not remarkable. The strange sounding part is seeing her credit card information (whatever that means… credit card number?) but that would be her problem, not yours.</p>
<p>NJres,</p>
<p>So why would someone who I don’t know want to have a video chat with me? It’s not the same as spam email. If I answer a FaceTime call on my iPad, I see and hear the caller and they see and hear me.</p>
<p>Let me tell you exactly what happened. I was using my iPad this morning and the app popped up for face time and it gave the phone number of someone that I didn’t know. It asked if I wanted to accept or reject the video chat and I clicked reject. The only person who I have ever used face time with is my daughter in college.</p>
<p>It may have been a mistake, but there are hacking apps that list a false phone number, identity, AND drivers license number. That seems the most likely. It would be unusual for a legitimate person to have attached a DL number.</p>
<p>People can just as easily type in a Skype or FaceTime contact (email or Skype name) mistyping a letter or somehow else entering the wrong one. It’s just like dialing a wrong number except you are doing it with a keyboard. People try to use these with me, but often do NOT spell my name correctly. It doesn’t connect with MY accounts (my friends usually call to see what’s up). BUT if someone’s name was spelled like the wrong way they enter mine, it would ring through to a stranger.</p>
<p>Well, curiosity got the best of me. So I called the phone number of the person who tried to contact me by Facetime. I explained what happened. She said she doesn’t even know what Facetime is. She said she was calling some people this morning about renting a condo that she owns. She also wanted to know if I left a review of her condo on Facebook. I had no idea what she was talking about. I gave her my e-mail address to see if it sounded familiar, but she said no.</p>
<p>So I guess I will never know what happened. Very bizarre.</p>
<p>Really–her credit card numbers showed up when you googled this? Seriously?</p>
<p>I hope you told her she should check all of her accounts and settings. It sounds like SHE has been hacked.</p>
<p>SteveMA –</p>
<p>Yes, it was a strange web site called xdd.org. The web site is called Fake US Identities. Anyway, Google took me directly to this woman’s information which included her full name, date of birth, address, phone number, social security number, passport number, driver’s license information, as well as a couple of credit cards with expiration dates and CCV numbers.</p>
<p>A couple of years ago I had watched a show on TV about identity theft. It did mention that there are online web sites where this information is posted when people have their identify stolen.</p>
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<p>Could be. I never found out who the “secret admirer” was who sent me a lovely Valentine’s Day card years ago when I was in college. Drove me crazy for awhile, and I still think about it from time to time at this time of year.</p>
<p>Life is full of mysteries. ;)</p>
<p>Something similar happened to me in high school. I got a romantic card from a boy (not for Valentine’s Day) who I did not know. Turns out there was another girl with the same name who lived in the my town. The card was intended for her, but I got it by mistake. So disappointing.</p>
<p>aqua - you are much braver than I am. I would never go visit a website like that… xdd dot org, but you already posted enough information to figure out what that website does.</p>
<p>from Google (without accessing the website)
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<p>In other words, all that credit card, drivers license, social security number, information about that woman is F-A-K-E. I certainly wouldn’t have called her up, and then you gave her your email address??? Are you kidding us? And you didn’t even ask her if, for example, that drivers license number you found online actually belonged to her? Hint: it is FAKE. I really can’t say any more about this.</p>