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Not only banks. My pension provider, Scottish Widows, did this to me a few weeks back, from a private number to boot. I told them I'd call them back and they
by reallydontask 7y ago
Not only banks.
My pension provider, Scottish Widows, did this to me a few weeks back, from a private number to boot.
I told them I'd call them back and they were fine. Not sure if it was a scam or not but suspect not as they were pretty ok about the whole thing.
- ascagnel_ 7y agoThere's a lot of institutional stupidity in banking, given that they need to verify the customer at the same time that the customer needs to verify the bank. That said, the "call back" test is an easy smell test -- a bad actor will have a huge problem with that, while the bank usually won't think too much of it.
- sjg007 7y agofyi .. Etrade has this stupidity fwiw.