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Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)

submitted 8 months ago by 0x0@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

The worst thing imo is when a form will say they need to verify your identity, so they ask you to give them a phone number you can receive a text at to do a 2fa.

...how, exactly, does that verify anything other than that I own access to a phone number that can receive a text?

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