For bank stuff and government documents I use a prepaid number I got on ebay on an old flip phone I remove the battery from.
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You really need to tell Mom to stop spamming you.
Start answering. Use a heavy accent in whatever you can do. Agree with them and go along, keep working up the ladder. Then give one of the higher ups the most schizo sexual nonsense you can come up with.
Never answer, the scammers sell data to each other. As soon as you answer, they know they've got a live number and the number of calls will multiply.
Also there's millions of them, pissing off a couple doesn't really do anything.
I think the scam calls are annoying, but it takes basically no effort to ignore them when I'm not in the mood to mess with them, so I don't mind them so much.
I figure though if I can keep one tied up talking to me for a few minutes that's one less chance for them to be scamming someone's grandmother. It's a tiny drop in the ocean, but it's still potentially one less person getting scammed that day, and that's worth something.
There is malware that only captures traffic when visiting banking websites.
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
I had an employer that uses Santander for pension, within a day of them adding my info into Santanders systems my email that has never gotten spam before in over 10 years (custom domain, only every used for government stuff or employment stuff) got 20-30 spam emails. It keeps getting 10 or so a day since then.
Big banks WILL sell your info.
No this was legit. This was a mortgage inquiry form on their website and one of their lone officers called me soon after
"trusted bank"
lol
Definitely not 989. lol
Same happened to me when I signed up with a mobile carrier
Yet another reason why credit unions are better.
Smart, I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in Michigan either
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?
I you know it because you are most probably from there or US.
No, it's because of how poorly obscured it is in the 5th one from the top in particular - there's no other numbers it could be.
Exactly, I was surprised that 989 was even a valid area code tbh, just doesn’t look right
Imagine not living in 616 though.
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
My kids complain about Mom spam too.
When, Today?
Yesterday. They like to remind me that Mom on a keypad is 666.
Ahhh... Just noticed that was you calling your mom, not your mom calling you. Good job!
That 666 bit is hysterical 😅