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Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)
submitted 8 months ago by 0x0 to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago

This is the solution.

Had this happen once, followed those steps, and the CSR was very interested in getting the details of the call. They put a freeze on that account for a bit as well. Nothing was taken.