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It's crazy how every reply to this comment is arguing a complete strawman. The other comment is arguing you could accidentally cancel payroll, which tells me t
by BoorishBears 7y ago
It's crazy how every reply to this comment is arguing a complete strawman.
The other comment is arguing you could accidentally cancel payroll, which tells me they've never had to worry about payroll before.
This one is claiming I'm advocating making a "security decision based on...".
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It's making a sanity check based on a few seconds of conversation.
If you didn't know, confirming a withdrawal for many times your normal payroll from your payroll account to an unknown account at the wrong time is fraudulent takes very little effort past a phone call.
That effort is easily worth it based on an off-the-cuff risk assessment.
- perl4ever 7y agoFundamentally, you can't do a risk assessment in response to someone telling you you're about to collide with an "unknown unknown". Most of the time, assuming the source is maliciously trying to confuse you is a better choice than doubting everything. When arguing from an armchair on the internet, somehow people forget what actual uncertainty under stress is like.