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My bank called me at 2am asking if I tried to send $800 to Belarus and I almost fell for their 'verification' link
Last Wednesday around 2am I got a call from a number that showed up as my bank's real customer service line, and the guy on the phone knew the last 4 of my debit card. He said there was a $800 charge to Minsk, Belarus, and to stop it he needed me to click a link and enter my full login so they could 'lock the account from the inside.' I was half asleep and actually opened the link, but then I noticed the URL had a weird extra dot after the real bank name, like .com.security-check, so I hung up and called the number on the back of my card. Real rep said no charge ever happened and they never call before 7am. Now I wanna know, do you guys keep your bank's actual number saved in your phone so you don't get got at 2am?
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the_viola13d ago
Learned that lesson after my mom saved the pizza place as "Bank of America" in her phone.
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the_viola13d ago
Saving the number only helps if you actually look at it, and at 2am half asleep you're just gonna answer whatever rings. The real fix is a rule with yourself: no banking stuff on phone calls, ever, hang up and call back the number on your card.
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