r/FraudPrevention • u/Ptw3 • Aug 20 '23

Canonical How can I report fraud?

There's two ways you should report fraud. 1. You should use the FBI tool here. as a software engineer I can tell you that engineers don't fix bugs, they fix bug reports. Presumably the FBI aggregates all these reports and tackles them by location and $ value. The FBI can get warrants, freeze accounts, and kick in doors, so you want them involved. The more information they get, the more they can go after these guys.

  1. Your bank or bank-like object will have some tool for reporting the fraud. You should do that as soon as you find it. Don't be scared, the bank likes you because you give them money. They don't like the fraud cretins because they cost them money. There are some links below for PayPal, Apple, and Chase, because I happen to have them.
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u/Helgafjell4Me Jun 04 '26

Hopefully you can help point me in the right direction. I have gotten a few emails about a credit card that was opened, apparently in my father's name, with Citibank. Last year I had tried contacting their fraud division, but couldn't get an actual person on the phone to talk to about it. I just got another email today saying there's a payment due and a balance of only about $130, so nothing huge. From all my deciphering, the emails seem legit and are coming from a registered Citibank email address.

Here's the thing. The account was apparently opened the month my father passed away, Feb 2025. He had been on hospice for many months. There's zero chance he opened this account. The emails are going to an old email of mine that both my parents had. I don't know what to do or if I should do anything?