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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mipadaitu@lemmy.world 7 months agoIt’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.
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.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ginger666@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Imaging getting ads
18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What is ads
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“No good deed goes unpunished” I guess. It’s a shame because you were doing that other guy a solid.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 7 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.”
snooggums@midwest.social 7 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.
teft@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’d have to start with the army. We used our social on everything as an identifier while I was in. I’d honestly be more surprised if my SSN wasn’t compromised.
snooggums@midwest.social 7 months ago
When i was in college in the 90s they used socials when they posted test scores.
One thing I noticed was that since it was a state college 90% of them started with the same 3 numbers because of how they issued SSNs.
franzfurdinand@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I cannot imagine the shit fit that people would throw if we tried to implement a secure national identity number. Even the SSN got a lot of backlash for being “the mark of the beast”, and that was introduced a little under a hundred years ago.
cm0002@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It was the government that started that in the first place lmao and then corporations went “Well the US gov can do it, why not us?”