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Tell them you feel uneasy giving out details over the phone to an inbound caller, hang up and call their service line directly. The only way you can be sure you are talking to your bank is if you are calling them.
Can you really be sure though? How hard is it really to redirect outgoing calls?
I hate when my bank calls me about something and then asks to confirm my identity prior to giving out details about my account. Even when I think I know what it is about (e.g., a transaction with my card was declined just before the phone call), I feel very strange giving out any information to an inbound caller. One thing I have thought about doing is providing mistaken information to the caller and see if they go a…
Definitely. Hang up the phone and call the phone number on the card associated with your account or look up the appropriate telephone number and call them back.
If they're legit, they will be perfectly fine with that. If not, they'll likely squawk about it.
Either way, the correct process begins with you hanging up without providing any information to the caller.
My bank will also send SMS "fraud alerts" with a request to confirm or deny a transaction. That's the same situation, IMHO and the right action is to call the known to be valid phone number for their customer service.
Perhaps there are other, fancier ways to do something like this, but as a general rule, scammers can't change the customer service phone number printed on your card, or hack third party services just to give you a fake phone number online.
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That makes sense. Sorting things out takes time. But trying to create an illusion that no alarm was triggered to prevent criminals from gaining knowledge: not a reason to imprison an innocent person.
>imprison an innocent person. Kind a hard word to use for an arrest. In many places police can arrest you for some period if they suspect you have committed a crime. This is no different. No need for sensational language.
And “imprison” and “arrest” are pretty darn close. In the US, when you are arrested, you are usually searched, fingerprinted, and a mugshot is taken.
The mugshot can become a public record. There are websites that match mugshots to names, and make money by being paid to take mugshots down.
Nobody wants the google result for their name to be a mugshot.
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I'd always assumed (UK) that 9 was a deliberate choice to make it easier to dial the emergency number, 999, because you can just mash 9 until something happens. I guess if it's the same number in all other countries who have a range of emergency numbers, then that might not be the reason.
My working theory is that in old times phones had rotary dial instead of key pad. Number 1 was the longest to dial, 9 was the shortest (as I remember from childhood days). Thus, fastest way to dial 3 digit code was to use numbers with as much as 9 as possible (997,998,999).
I hate when my bank calls me about something and then asks to confirm my identity prior to giving out details about my account. Even when I think I know what it is about (e.g., a transaction with my card was declined just before the phone call), I feel very strange giving out any information to an inbound caller. One thing I have thought about doing is providing mistaken information to the caller and see if they go a…
Bank: Hey I'm calling from HSBC, want to verify it?
Me: Sure
Bank: Ok, so open you mobile app, and enter 637482
Me: Ok, cool thats given me 274893
Bank: Yep, that's all confirmed so ...Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tell them you feel uneasy giving out details over the phone to an inbound caller, hang up and call their service line directly. The only way you can be sure you are talking to your bank is if you are calling them.
Wait a couple of minutes or call back from a different phone. In the UK it may still be possible for an attacker to hold the line open after you hang up - and then simulate the dial tone.
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I grew up with a rotary phone. From memory, 1 was the shortest to dial, 9 the longest.
Actually this is country specific AFAIK. Wikipedia has a picture[1] of a phone from New Zealand which has 9 as the shortest. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_dial#/media/File:New_Ze...
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Time to post this again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE (Don't talk to the police)
Everytime this is posted I feel the need to mention to Brits specifically: this does not apply. "It may harm your defence if when questioned you fail to mention something you will later rely on in court". Failure to answer can seriously harm your defence and I've heard of people I personally know (though I wasn't in the courtroom) where the prosecution hammered the point that they "came up with a plausible sounding s…
Anything else is simply not safe at all or might cost you prison time, check the UK laws on this.
A project that's 2 days old should be using $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. My home directory is where I need a clean slate, not your clutter.