My excuse is that I’m a Korean who grew up abroad all my life, but I’m also possibly just a naive dumbass. Received a phone call from NY and I answered expecting it to be about a job application, but turns out they were the “NY Korean consulate” and had received a request from the Seoul police to help on a case: someone had apparently gotten a Korean phone number under my name and spam called hundreds of people. They transferred me to the “Seoul police” after to confirm that I wasn’t me who had done it, and I very very stupidly confirmed my identity by giving out passport and Korean identification number information. All of this was done first through phone call and then through WhatsApp video call, where I saw a man in uniform with a police station background, a police ID, he even said I could look up the number he called from on google to see it was legit.
Everything ended once I realized with help of family, but I need advice on what I should delete or renew at this point. I have no bank account or money in Korea whatsoever, just one in the US, did not download anything, did not send any money, just the shared identity information.
I’ve heard varying advice, from just changing my passport and Korean identification number to also changing my phone, phone number, and KakaoTalk (apparently just by answering the call they can get access to all the data on my phone?). Bank account passwords? What do you suggest? Thank you for any advice
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