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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your morning will be going worse if you click that link.
Comment on How my morning is going...
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your morning will be going worse if you click that link.
Coldgoron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Haven’t clicked any link yet but it could be possible phishing. Maybe log into my legit discover account first.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It is for sure phishing. Discover isn’t going to send you an email like that. Even loading the graphics was a bad idea.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not “for sure phishing” Discover does send emails like that. They have a service where they scan the internet for your personal information, and they sell you credit monitoring, and other stuff to reduce the impact.
Here’s a screenshot of part of their website for this monitoring.
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Of course it’s ALWAYS a good idea to go to the website, and never click a link on an email from your financial institution, but I’m like 80% sure that this is a legit email.
Also, your SSN and other financial details have likely been compromised dozens of times, so just having your SSN floating around out there isn’t surprising. It’s a fault in the system for using an unsecured SSN as an identify instead of what it was initially used for.
snooggums@midwest.social 11 months ago
It is alao the fault of the government for not putting a halt to and punishing those corporations who decided to hijack SSNs and treat them as some kind of secret code.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh great, I clicked too many of their links on their website and now I’m getting targeted ads for their “super special identity protection”
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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Okay, I made an edit. Like I said there, the alerts I’ve gotten have never had links for the reasons you mentioned - they say things like “call the number on the back of your card.”
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Discover offers monitoring. How are you so sure it’s phishing? An abundance of caution and logging in directly is certainly a safe route to verify, but convincing OP this is phishing and that the graphics are risky is unnecessarily alarming
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
See my edit - apparently I was wrong. My credit card companies never put a link on security alerts, and they’ve said they never will, so that customers know alerts with links are bogus. They always say to call the number on the card or login to your account, without providing a number or link. Discover must work differently.
Coldgoron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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Sadly its legit…
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That sucks. I made an edit.
rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 11 months ago
Hmm dang I got an email from ATT about this, and the last I had them was for a landline in 2013... Can't believe they keep data for this long.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 11 months ago
why does a phone company need your social security?
AlphaAutist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are you sure? Discover does have free identity monitoring and I get emails every month saying whether they found anything or not. I have never gotten an email saying they found my ssn though so can’t say for sure if this is legit. Either way I would still check through the app or their website without opening the link.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I made an edit - weird that their alert has a link.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They absolutely do send emails like this. They’ve got a monitoring service if you have a credit card with them to check for data breaches, and most credit cards and even banks I’ve seen do the same. I just got my monthly monitoring update email this morning from Discover, thankfully telling me they didn’t find anything.