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

  • towerful@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    9 months 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

    • Thatoneguy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

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

      • ScampiLover@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        We had a zoom call with a very well reviewed, recommended broker local to us. Next day I get a spam call pretending to be the bank we talked about the most as a lender, but that we currently have no business with. My paranoia has been at 100% ever since

      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        9 months 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.

  • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months 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.

    • cordlesslamp@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      9 months 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”.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      9 months 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?

      • Thatoneguy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        03·
        9 months ago

        Honestly I didn’t try that hard. I don’t live there anymore nor do I know anyone or anything that is still there so who cares if people know I guess

  • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Thorry84@feddit.nlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      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.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

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