You think area code is hidden? It's not!
989 represent!
god i love the modern internet.
I get the same crap from doctor visits out here. Guess the assistants arent paid enough to properly police their bosses systems
What?! That's impossible! Banks are credible, reliable, trustworthy! Cryptocurrencies, those are the baddies.
Ah crypto, proving why we regulate banks everyday.
Do we though?... 'Cos it seems to me the path has been deregulating.
Still more regulated than crypto.
Crypto🤡
Well Monero is a load better then any bank if you ask me.
Smart, I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in Michigan either
That's Pure Michigan, friend.
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?
Or just increase the size of the pen tool...
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
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.
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.
Yeah that tip really only works for hardcopies, and handwritten ones at that.
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
Good on you for calling your Mom.
There is one more person whom the OP seriously censored. More than their area codes
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.
They forgot to blank out her name though.
Doxxed.
I should call her
I should also call thatoneguy's mom
The username makes this even better
Which bank?
Op: Name and shame, please.
I would if it wasn't my employers credit union which would give away too much information about me
Says the guy who thinks someone could dox him if they knew he lived in Michigan years ago lol.
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.
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".
...hospitals sell your information, too.
I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.
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.
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.
...hospitals sell your information, too.
I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.
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
No this was legit. This was a mortgage inquiry form on their website and one of their lone officers called me soon after
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.
Definitely not 989. lol
"trusted bank"
lol
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