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It won’t because they can’t verify that you are who you say you are in first place, so to them you’re just a scammer trying to socially engineer them. (Or at le
by ninkendo 3y ago
It won’t because they can’t verify that you are who you say you are in first place, so to them you’re just a scammer trying to socially engineer them. (Or at least that’s how they should be treating you if they were trained correctly.)
- iforgotpassword 3y agoThey're in a bank. In person. How can an SMS be considered safer than that?
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoThe bank took photocopies of my id when I opened the account. Surely they can match that with the three valid government IDs I carry with me and that should be more trustworthy than a phone which might have been changed in the meanwhile, stolen or imei-spoofed.
- ninkendo 3y agoToo late to edit above, so adding this here: D’oh, didn’t realize the anecdote was about an in-person exchange at the bank, I skimmed the context too quickly.