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Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)
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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.

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 years 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.

[-] plz1@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

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

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