Area code blocked for privacy but it is spoofed from my phones number which I have not lived there in many years

  • towerful@programming.devEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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

    • Thatoneguy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      No this was legit. This was a mortgage inquiry form on their website and one of their lone officers called me soon after

      • ScampiLover@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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

        • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzEnglish
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          5 months ago

          It’s not paranoia if they really are trying to kill scam you.

          IMHO you probably now have the right amount of scepticism.

      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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.

        • SlothMama@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          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.

    • vodka@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

  • halloween_spookster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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

    • LeadersAtWork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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.

          • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            5 months ago

            and even then you can at least buy some tippex to censor things, and if you want to get advanced i’m sure there are products that straight up remove the ink from the paper.

            I know there are specific extra hard erasers for removing pen ink

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • cordlesslamp@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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”.

      • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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.

        • cordlesslamp@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I don’t think they really care if it’s not actually illegal.

          Or they could sell the data in bulk. And the day I put in my number just happens to be the day they sell their database.

      • yannic@lemmy.caEnglish
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        5 months ago

        …hospitals sell your information, too.

        I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

      • yannic@lemmy.caEnglish
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        5 months ago

        …hospitals sell your information, too.

        I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I get the same crap from doctor visits out here. Guess the assistants arent paid enough to properly police their bosses systems

  • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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    5 months ago

    What?! That’s impossible! Banks are credible, reliable, trustworthy! Cryptocurrencies, those are the baddies.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      In general I think best practice is to call out “hey, I can see your area code in case you want to edit your post to more fully redact it” then any jokes about “since I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in [REDACTED] either!”

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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?

      • Thatoneguy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Honestly I didn’t try that hard. I don’t live there anymore nor do I know anyone or anything that is still there so who cares if people know I guess

        • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I agree with the other reply and would honestly love an answer, if only to get a peek under the hood of people who do this.

          If you didn’t try that hard because you didn’t care, again, why did you even bother? It’s like trying to scoop water with a colander, on some level you have to know it’s wasted effort, right?

      • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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.

        • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Exactly, I was surprised that 989 was even a valid area code tbh, just doesn’t look right