What can a scammer do with one’s personal info such as name, email, photo’s and possibly password?

Vince: What can a scammer do with one’s personal info such as name, email, photo’s and possibly password?
Will a person be charged for international yahoo im’s if they have an unlimited data usage plan with their iPhone?

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Answer by Damocles
The term “identity theft” would be someone stealing enough information about you to be able to pass themselves off as you in order to establish credit (a credit card, etc.).

Name – of course they would need that.

E-mail – not much they can do with your e-mail address, other than sell it to spammers.

Photos – I’m not sure what they could do with these, other than use them to boulster the notion that they are you.

Password – password to what? To your e-mail? To your on-line banking account? This could be important depending upon what it is the password to.

Answer by Tell me about it…
E-mail is probably the worst to have out there since a lot of people keep things in thier inbox that contain personal info. Like a website login/password confirmation email…any kind of confirmation email gives them lots of info. They can see where you do online shopping, what kind of credit card you used for the transactions…

You should delete that stuff.