Four days after receiving the previous message from what I’m not 100% sure is Facebook, the following message arrived at 2:58 a.m. I had never heard of ID.me prior to this and could not have responded by clicking on the link because it expired 15 minutes later, hours before I got out of bed. That was only the first thing that caused me to be skeptical about this particular message. The second thing was that it thanked me for requesting ID.me verification. The third thing was text in the message: “A one time auto ID.me.” I didn’t consider the message further because of the poor grammar that a major corporation would not have used. I can’t say with certainty this is the end of the story or not because I can’t predict what whoever it is that is messaging me might do next, if anything.
After writing, but not yet posting, this installment, my wife handed me an article from the February 6, 2024 edition of the Wall Street Journal. Buried in Jay Starkman’s “Beware of E-Filing Your Tax Return” is this little nugget: “I advise my clients not to use ID.me because it is a private database of personal information. My clients have no control over it and must trust that it won’t be hacked.”
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