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'Activation' for some cards entails calling a number included in the literature; you don't need to do anything further, so I presume they just confirm the call
by ghostly_s 9y ago
'Activation' for some cards entails calling a number included in the literature; you don't need to do anything further, so I presume they just confirm the call is coming from the phone number you have on file?
- dalore 9y agoThese days you can do some of them online. You get a website and a code.
- tialaramex 9y agoMy bank would do normal phone banking authentication, so that means I need to know my name and address (which someone who had intercepted the card has) and then I need to know a password (from which I will be asked random letters) and for some other thing I told them like "my favourite food is Apple pie" or "I secretly hate owls". No idea what would happen for a company, but I wouldn't be surprised if some PA picked the answers and wrote them down. Which still makes it hard for a random crook to have them.