Area code blocked for privacy but it is spoofed from my phones number which I have not lived there in many years
Good on you for calling your Mom.
I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed
Submitted 4 months ago by Thatoneguy@sh.itjust.works to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Xanis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
MadBob@feddit.nl 4 months ago
They forgot to blank out her name though.
Alk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Doxxed.
RixMixed@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I should call her
bizarroland@fedia.io 4 months ago
I should also call thatoneguy's mom
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
There is one more person whom the OP seriously censored. More than their area codes
tacosplease@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I assumed that was their actual phone number. They received a spoofed call from themselves.
Happened to my wife once. Her own number showed up on her caller ID.
halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You might want to consider a more thorough wiping of your area code next time. It’s pretty easy to figure out what it is through the scribbles
Xanis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Tip: Always write over things you don’t want seen in the same color they were originally written in, if you can’t completely redact it. This fucks with our brain’s ability to distinguish a pattern, which is all reading really is anyway.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
or, you know, just put a black bar over it so the information is just completely gone from the image?
scribbling over is never going to actually work, the information is still there for anyone who wants to extract it. It’s like shouting over someone instead of just getting them to shut up.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Looks like you got phished. Doubt that was the real bank site. Suggest you change your passwords if you logged in to that site, too.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Banks and hospitals sell your information, too.
When my wife gave birth to our son at the hospital, I have to put down my phone number as part of the check in form. Immediately the next day I got call for “Home care services for new mom and baby”.
When I got my first big saving in the bank, a
yannic@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
…hospitals sell your information, too.
I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh totally. But they don’t sync that information “immediately”. Nor would they ever want to because then the user would know that’s where the information came from.
yannic@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
…hospitals sell your information, too.
I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Either that or you’ve got some malware.
Kuvwert@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Which bank?
pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Name and shame, please.
Thatoneguy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I would if it wasn’t my employers credit union which would give away too much information about me
towerful@programming.dev 4 months ago
Are you 100% sure it was a form from a bank?
Everything stinks of a scammers phishing form, leading to scammer calls.I expect the only time a bank is going to want your phone number is when you initially sign up with them. After that, they should know who you are and your contact details.
I almost got caught out by a “sorry we missed you” delivery message, until it was asking for my date of birth.
Some of these random emails and SMS can catch you off-guard and seem legitThatoneguy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
No this was legit. This was a mortgage inquiry form on their website and one of their lone officers called me soon after
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I also got a million spam calls after applying for a mortgage with a trusted bank a couple years ago. I suspect that the banks sell your information to mortgage brokers. I’d be curious to see the privacy policy on the form you submitted.
ScampiLover@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We’re had a zoom call with a very well reviewed, recommended broker local to us. Next day I get a spam call pretending to be the bank we talked about the most as a lender, but that we currently have no business with. My paranoia has been at 100% ever since
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Banks’ system are probably already compromised and don’t even know it.
towerful@programming.dev 4 months ago
Yikes, that’s rough!
vodka@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I had an employer that uses Santander for pension, within a day of them adding my info into Santanders systems my email that has never gotten spam before in over 10 years (custom domain, only every used for government stuff or employment stuff) got 20-30 spam emails. It keeps getting 10 or so a day since then.
Big banks WILL sell your info.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
You think area code is hidden? It’s not!
remer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
989 represent!
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 months ago
Definitely not 989. lol
tipicaldik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“trusted bank” lol
Today@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My kids complain about Mom spam too.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When, Today?
Today@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yesterday. They like to remind me that Mom on a keypad is 666.
Ahhh… Just noticed that was you calling your mom, not your mom calling you. Good job!
GluWu@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Start answering. Use a heavy accent in whatever you can do. Agree with them and go along, keep working up the ladder. Then give one of the higher ups the most schizo sexual nonsense you can come up with.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Never answer, the scammers sell data to each other. As soon as you answer, they know they’ve got a live number and the number of calls will multiply.
Also there’s millions of them, pissing off a couple doesn’t really do anything.
Fondots@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think the scam calls are annoying, but it takes basically no effort to ignore them when I’m not in the mood to mess with them, so I don’t mind them so much.
I figure though if I can keep one tied up talking to me for a few minutes that’s one less chance for them to be scamming someone’s grandmother. It’s a tiny drop in the ocean, but it’s still potentially one less person getting scammed that day, and that’s worth something.
DillyDaily@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes and no, if you scambait hard enough your number can eventually be added to a blacklist for larger scam organisations that bought your data for use in multiple scam attempts.
In my experience that has really cut down on the calls.
In 2020 the department of human services accidentally posted my personal phone number on a list of support services for people experiencing housing or food insecurity. This number was then circulated by every major news source in my state. I couldn’t change my number at the time because I had no legal ID (still don’t… Can’t figure out how to get ID without ID, but I have a new number now at least) at first I didn’t really notice the ratio of spam calls to genuine calls for the wrong number (ie, people calling my number because they needed housing/food) . I just remember getting 40+ calls a day at many stages.
But as the actual number for the food relief service was circulated, I eventually stopped getting genuine calls and I was getting 3-5 scam calls every single day.
After a year of scam baiting, I was getting 2 a week.
Now, I’ll do something online that requires sharing my current number, within a few hours I get a scam call because my data has been sold, but I bait the heck out of that first call and I usually don’t receive any further calls which suggest my number was blacklisted by a larger scam organisation, and I won’t be hassled until my data is sold again as a new item.
It’s hard to avoid getting your number on scam lists when the largest health insurance company, and the second largest telecommunications company in my country both had major data breaches where millions of customers identifying information was accessed and sold to scammers…
bizarroland@fedia.io 4 months ago
Set your voicemail to the pickup of a fax machine.
GluWu@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Lol, yeah, just cuz you answered means good data. I’m sure they love wasting time and money on known scambaiters. I get maybe 1 scam call every other month for the last 5+ years from US scammers. Zero Indians after I told that one guy a decade ago I was uploading him to YouTube. But you do you. I’m just going to keep enjoying not getting spam calls.
TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
There is malware that only captures traffic when visiting banking websites.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yet another reason why credit unions are better.
0x0@programming.dev 4 months ago
What?! That’s impossible! Banks are credible, reliable, trustworthy! Cryptocurrencies, those are the baddies.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ah crypto, proving why we regulate banks everyday.
0x0@programming.dev 4 months ago
Do we though?.. 'Cos it seems to me the path has been deregulating.
jose1324@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Crypto🤡
kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Well Monero is a load better then any bank if you ask me.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
god i love the modern internet.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I get the same crap from doctor visits out here. Guess the assistants arent paid enough toproperlypolice their bosses systems
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 months ago
For bank stuff and government documents I use a prepaid number I got on ebay on an old flip phone I remove the battery from.
Denjin@lemmings.world 4 months ago
Cool story
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Think they’re offering a privacy(“”) tip:
Spend ~$50/yr to avoid spam calls.
Less if FreedomPop works. $0 if Google Voice works & if Alphabet products are acceptable.
naticus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You really need to tell Mom to stop spamming you.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same happened to me when I signed up with a mobile carrier
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lucky. All I ate BS recruiter spam. I have no idea why; I’ve been disabled for years
subtext@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Smart, I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in Michigan either
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 months ago
I really don’t understand lazy censoring. You can either not use the thin pen tool or just spend a few more seconds making sure it’s unreadable. What’s the point of doing it at all if people can still decipher what you’re obscuring?
Thatoneguy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Honestly I didn’t try that hard. I don’t live there anymore nor do I know anyone or anything that is still there so who cares if people know I guess
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Or just increase the size of the pen tool…
Sewer_King@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Imagine not living in 616 though.
dragnucs@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I you know it because you are most probably from there or US.
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, it’s because of how poorly obscured it is in the 5th one from the top - there’s no other numbers it could be.
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
That’s Pure Michigan, friend.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
In general I think best practice is to call out “hey, I can see your area code in case you want to edit your post to more fully redact in” then any jokes about “since I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in [REDACTED] either!”