The phone thing has veered into outright fraud. Twitter just paid a $150,000,000 fine to the (US) FTC for letting advertisers match on telephone numbers provide

The phone thing has veered into outright fraud. Twitter just paid a $150,000,000 fine to the (US) FTC for letting advertisers match on telephone numbers provided for 2FA. I am really tired of people selling my burner phone to the credit people; and no, I don't own that phone number. Prove I do. Take my local credit union. Please. Jackasses let someone have access to my checking account. I don't bank online with them either, or I didn't, but last summer was trying to talk to them about a refi and I had to register online and they wanted a phone for 2FA. So of course instead of calling the land line, which is clearly and incontrovertibly mine, they called the burner. Several times. Eventually I answered it with "fuck you you frauds" and they were "oooh sir, call me back on my direct line" so I tried... from my land line in the same area code, you get the idea... and their system won't route the call to their fraud department. So I ignored them for a couple of weeks. Seriously they were so incompetent that when the actual fraudsters were probing, the first transaction was a /deposit/. When they were finally trying to clean their mess up, they /credited/ me the same amount. I'm the one who figured it out and told them well you gave me 2x their original deposit, when you really should have debited the amount in the first place. People like that are not going to safeguard your information. Ob relevance: I have my own reasons for not wildcarding domains and use this instead: https://github.com/m3047/trualias https://github.com/m3047/trualias