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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Area code blocked for privacy but it is spoofed from my phones number which I have not lived there in many years

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 6 days ago

You think area code is hidden? It's not!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

989 represent!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

god i love the modern internet.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I get the same crap from doctor visits out here. Guess the assistants arent paid enough to properly police their bosses systems

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

What?! That's impossible! Banks are credible, reliable, trustworthy! Cryptocurrencies, those are the baddies.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Ah crypto, proving why we regulate banks everyday.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Do we though?... 'Cos it seems to me the path has been deregulating.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Still more regulated than crypto.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago
[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Well Monero is a load better then any bank if you ask me.

[-] [email protected] 127 points 1 week ago

Smart, I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in Michigan either

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

That's Pure Michigan, friend.

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 week 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?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Or just increase the size of the pen tool...

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[-] [email protected] 68 points 1 week 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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Yeah that tip really only works for hardcopies, and handwritten ones at that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

and even then you can at least buy some tippex to censor things, and if you want to get advanced i'm sure there are products that straight up remove the ink from the paper.

I know there are specific extra hard erasers for removing pen ink

[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago

Good on you for calling your Mom.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

There is one more person whom the OP seriously censored. More than their area codes

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

They forgot to blank out her name though.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I should also call thatoneguy's mom

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

The username makes this even better

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Op: Name and shame, please.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I would if it wasn't my employers credit union which would give away too much information about me

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Says the guy who thinks someone could dox him if they knew he lived in Michigan years ago lol.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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".

[-] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago

...hospitals sell your information, too.

I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I don't think they really care if it's not actually illegal.

Or they could sell the data in bulk. And the day I put in my number just happens to be the day they sell their database.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

...hospitals sell your information, too.

I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

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[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 week 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 legit

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

No this was legit. This was a mortgage inquiry form on their website and one of their lone officers called me soon after

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week 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.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

Definitely not 989. lol

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"trusted bank"

lol

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

My kids complain about Mom spam too.

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