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   🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 04:30:54 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑

   Just got another call pretending to be my credit union, asking if I had authorized various transactions. They asked me if the FIRST four digits of my card matched. Those are TRIVIAL for an attacker to know. They asked when I had most recently used my card, and where. I said, "you can tell me that." They asked if I wanted my card cancelled or put on hold, and I said cancel. Then they started talking about sending me a new card.
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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 04:30:53 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑

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     If you get a call purporting to be your bank, credit union, or card issuer, call them back at their published phone number, ideally from a different phone. If they are _extremely_ sophisticated, they may be playing SS7 shenanigans on your phone number, making the phone untrustworthy.
     Never give account details to anyone who CALLS YOU.
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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 04:30:54 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑

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     If it hadn't already been obvious that it was a scam, they said that in order to send me the new card, I would have to give them information printed on the old card. I said, "I don't need a new card. Thank you. Goodbye."
     This isn't the first time I've gotten one of these scam calls. They sppof the caller ID of the financial institution.
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     Steve's Place repeated this.