Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.

  • @sbvEnglish
    44•3 months ago

    I hadn’t given [the scammer] the last four digits of my card.

    Wait a sec.

    He hadn’t asked for the last four digits. He’d asked for the last seven digits. At the time, I’d found that very frustrating, but now – “The first nine digits are the same for every card you issue, right?” I asked the VP.

    I’d given him my entire card number.

    Huh. I hadn’t realized the institution prefix was so long.

    • plz1English
      4•3 months ago

      I didn’t know that either but I’d also never divulge that info on an inbound phone call.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•3 months ago

        It’s public info, you can just Google “what does my card number mean” and there’s tons of results