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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.

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snooggums@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s a fault in the system for using an unsecured SSN as an identify instead of what it was initially used for.

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.

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- teft@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - snooggums@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.
    
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- franzfurdinand@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.
  
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- cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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?”
  
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mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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- Ginger666@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Imaging getting ads
  
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- 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What is ads
  
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- ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “No good deed goes unpunished” I guess. It’s a shame because you were doing that other guy a solid.
  
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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.”

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