CHICAGO (CBS) — You may have heard this – “Don’t touch your mail, because it’s covered with COVID-19.”
That is not true. But it is an effective scare tactic that identity thieves are using to pull off their scams.
As CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reported Wednesday, federal authorities have launched an investigation.
“We were targeted,” said Jim Podlin.
First, Podlin and his wife Jan were notified by their credit monitoring service that someone had applied for two Discover cards in their names. They never requested the cards.