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I received multiple calls this morning on my personal cell that's used for 2FA for my personal FB account. All of them, they were pitching me ads to buy for my business accounts.
None of my business accounts have my personal cell on them.
Edit: Now my personal email connected is getting emails to purchase business ads...
Even government portals are copying the tactic. (I didn't agree to a draconian ToS recently for an online fee filing, and it took months and hours on the phone just to make a simple VISA payment).
So it may well be that they have bad news and are under pressure to say that they are trying to improve revenue.
https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
Meta recruiting somehow got a hold of my name@amazon.com employer email -- which I have never posted publicly -- and started sending me recruitment emails to my work email. This struck me as incredibly unprofessional, though I understand it's almost certainly an automated system doing it.
I still don't know how they got the email address (though I guess it's just lastname+first initial, so they could have guessed?). I may have DM'd it to someone in a FB messenger chat? Maybe I used it in an "work email" field during sign up for some industry conference whose data later got hacked? A colleague accidentally merged their work/personal contact list and uploaded it somewhere? Who knows.
Oopsie daisy! Tee hee, it was an honest mistake because ${team} didn’t know they weren’t supposed to!
Services that require a phone number like twitter, discord, blizzard, signal, twitch, etc are giving you a heads up that they're abusive and will work against your interests. Stay far away.