New Phishing Scam Email Circulating Through Tri-State

Phishing scams are easy to spot. They may appear to come from a bank you don't do business with.

            But two days ago, a new phishing scam appeared in the Tri-State. The e-mail claimed to be from Equifax-- the credit reporting service that keeps all our credit information.

          Charlene Mecklenburg of Colerain Township  received the email and calls it very dangerous. It asks the recipient to update their account information.

            Mecklenburg and her husband check their credit record yearly with Equifax and realize only a scammer would be sending out something like this.

         But someone might fall for it and go to the crooks' fake website - billed as Equifax eport.

             If you update your personal information here you could become the victim of identity theft.

            I called Equifax and it has now put out a warning about this on its website.

            It says if you receive that phishing email, don't even click on the link-- just delete it.