Judy:

I'm so sorry this happened to your son and his wife. It seems as if we all know that scams and phishing emails are out there. However, when someone we know gets hurt the reality of how dangerous this stuff is just hits home very hard.

The work that is involved now for your kids is overwhelming - just in changing stuff. I'm sure you know this and so do your kids but I'll offer it anyway: they should contact all credit bureaus (Expireon etc) and tell them they have been the victims of a scammer. The bureaus will put a flag on their accounts at no charge to them. And it will continue for a specific period of time - I think it's six months but I may very well be wrong. At that end of that time period they can again reactivate it. A police report also makes good sense as the case number can be used when reporting to other companies what has happened.

Once again, I am so very sad that they have to go through this. This is a very concrete example of what happens when the low lifes of the world put their rotten heads together and come up with a way to steal every bit of money from anyone they want to. The worst part of it is that most of these cretins are never caught and can just continue doing it again and again.

Thanks for sharing and thanks to your kids for allowing you to tell what happened. This is a perfect example for this thread.

Garry