I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.

  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He said someone in the bank’s supply chain was compromised, as they knew a lot of details that should have been known only to the bank. Also that the only information he gave away were the last digits of a card number.

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      1 year ago

      When a possible fraud department calls you, you shouldn’t need to verify any digits of the card. Answer only yes or no.

      Call them back if you need to give additional information.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve never had a legitimate contact from a fraud department that wasn’t an automated message stating to call the number on the card. I’ve never had a human call me to initiate a live discussion.