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And as always: The best defense is minimizing data other people have about you. None of my banks needs my phone number, so none of my banks has my phone number,
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
And as always: The best defense is minimizing data other people have about you. None of my banks needs my phone number, so none of my banks has my phone number, so if someone called and claimed they were my bank, that would obviously be bullshit.
It's not just the obvious "people can't abuse or lose data they don't have" why keeping your info to yourself protects you against abuse.
- throwaway744678 7y agoWow, I am pretty sure most banks require a phone number when you open an account. Or do you give them a random number?
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y agoWell, many require that you fill the phone number field, but just entering zeros does the job. If anyone (not just banks) does extended validation, I enter some syntactically valid but unallocatable number, that has always done the job so far.