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How do you know it was "stolen". Anyone can find just about anyone else's CPF on the internet because it is so widely used. I've seldom had any difficulty finding the CPF of anyone. That's one of the sad realities of a country where you need to give someone your CPF for just about every time you do something except breathe. It seems more likely someone grabbed her CPF from the internet or elsewhere and sent her a scam message hoping she would pay. The same person probably sends hundreds of these a day.

I would possibly but carefully ignore it! If it's just some Whatsapp then they probably don't have anything to use against your girlfriend.

Also, I hate the fact that so many places ask for a CPF. But I never give it to them (I know in some places that's not possible though).

But what's even more suspicious is the Serasa AntiFraude website. Well maybe it's good but it doesn't seem official. And if it isn't, what are they gaining out of this "service"?

Thanks for the response I been reading this is becoming more a problem. I had her go make a police report and check her bank in person. The Serasa site has a phone number so I said if she want to use the service to call them. At the police station they told her nothing would be done.  It was good she didn’t go to the website on the message. Just a tip we looked at the phone number and it was from Santos not a government agency. Second looked up on Google search the name of the so called agency in the message no such government agency. Just a couple way to check without following the message instructions. Hope this helps. Did police report to have as evidence in case they do use her CPF to open account or what every else.

You are crashing out over nothing. In every week, I recieve more than 6 different of such scam calls. i have decided to consider it normal in brasil.

@Obinnau this wasn’t a scam call it was a whatapp text. It had her correct CPF and her full name. This shows they have her identification which they could try to use. This why I had her do police report this will be a way to show it was stolen at a specific date. Also if they run up debt she has proof of it being stolen. Not just her word which would be hard to prove. Hope this helps

@NewBrazil

I'll say this again. The full name and CPF of a huge percentage of Brazilians can easily be found with a routine internet search. Although people might use that information for nefarious purposes, it does not mean it is "stolen". If a person has ever been involved in a legal action, has graduated from a school, has an online subscription, has ever appeared in the Brazilian Diário Oficial da União (a summary of much of every day's government activity) or done any of about a thousand other things that involve a CPF it is likely to be accessible online--sometimes with other details such as an address and phone number. This isn't the way it should be, but because Brazilians are constantly giving out their CPF and there is no "secrecy" regarding a CPF, this is the way it is. As an experiment, two minutes before writing this I searched for my wife's name and found her CPF online in 11 instances.

@jonesio Thank for your response also your explanation. I hope your right about them not being able to use your CPF. The experiment you did with your wife CPF how easy it was to get and how many places it was available.

Check out ABTHREE’s post in this thread.

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@NewBrazil Not sure who posted it, but a previous post about using their boyfriends, girlfriends CPF can lead to situations like this. Protect it like you would your USA Social Security Number.

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