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Area code blocked for privacy but it is spoofed from my phones number which I have not lived there in many years
Smart, I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in Michigan either
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024
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I really don't understand lazy censoring. You can either not use the thin pen tool or just spend a few more seconds making sure it's unreadable. What's the point of doing it at all if people can still decipher what you're obscuring?
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Imagine not living in 616 though.
I you know it because you are most probably from there or US.
No, it's because of how poorly obscured it is in the 5th one from the top in particular - there's no other numbers it could be.
Exactly, I was surprised that 989 was even a valid area code tbh, just doesn’t look right
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Good on you for calling your Mom.
I should call her
I should also call thatoneguy's mom
The username makes this even better
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You might want to consider a more thorough wiping of your area code next time. It's pretty easy to figure out what it is through the scribbles
Tip: Always write over things you don't want seen in the same color they were originally written in, if you can't completely redact it. This fucks with our brain's ability to distinguish a pattern, which is all reading really is anyway.
or, you know, just put a black bar over it so the information is just completely gone from the image?
scribbling over is never going to actually work, the information is still there for anyone who wants to extract it. It's like shouting over someone instead of just getting them to shut up.
Which bank?
Op: Name and shame, please.
I would if it wasn't my employers credit union which would give away too much information about me
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Looks like you got phished. Doubt that was the real bank site. Suggest you change your passwords if you logged in to that site, too.
Banks and hospitals sell your information, too.
When my wife gave birth to our son at the hospital, I have to put down my phone number as part of the check in form. Immediately the next day I got call for "Home care services for new mom and baby".
...hospitals sell your information, too.
I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.
Oh totally. But they don't sync that information "immediately". Nor would they ever want to because then the user would know that's where the information came from.
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Either that or you’ve got some malware.
Are you 100% sure it was a form from a bank?
Everything stinks of a scammers phishing form, leading to scammer calls.
I expect the only time a bank is going to want your phone number is when you initially sign up with them. After that, they should know who you are and your contact details.
I almost got caught out by a "sorry we missed you" delivery message, until it was asking for my date of birth.
Some of these random emails and SMS can catch you off-guard and seem legit
No this was legit. This was a mortgage inquiry form on their website and one of their lone officers called me soon after
I also got a million spam calls after applying for a mortgage with a trusted bank a couple years ago. I suspect that the banks sell your information to mortgage brokers. I'd be curious to see the privacy policy on the form you submitted.
I took out a loan, but the service request was in my partner's name. It's my phone, but now I'm getting crazy crypto spam WhatsApp stuff in her name, along with home security spam and other spam I never got before. Since it's coming to my phone, in their name, either or both companies sold me / us out and we were getting calls within days.
Did he have an Indian accent?
Yea, but he said this name was Daniel!
Op is gone because he’s at Walmart buying gift cards to get his mortgage going.
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We had a zoom call with a very well reviewed, recommended broker local to us. Next day I get a spam call pretending to be the bank we talked about the most as a lender, but that we currently have no business with. My paranoia has been at 100% ever since
It's not paranoia if they really are trying to ~~kill~~ scam you.
IMHO you probably now have the right amount of scepticism.
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I had an employer that uses Santander for pension, within a day of them adding my info into Santanders systems my email that has never gotten spam before in over 10 years (custom domain, only every used for government stuff or employment stuff) got 20-30 spam emails. It keeps getting 10 or so a day since then.
Big banks WILL sell your info.
You think area code is hidden? It's not!
989 represent!
Definitely not 989. lol
"trusted bank"
lol
There is malware that only captures traffic when visiting banking websites.
Yet another reason why credit unions are better.
god i love the modern internet.
Start answering. Use a heavy accent in whatever you can do. Agree with them and go along, keep working up the ladder. Then give one of the higher ups the most schizo sexual nonsense you can come up with.
Never answer, the scammers sell data to each other. As soon as you answer, they know they've got a live number and the number of calls will multiply.
Also there's millions of them, pissing off a couple doesn't really do anything.
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For bank stuff and government documents I use a prepaid number I got on ebay on an old flip phone I remove the battery from.
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