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I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to con
by modeless 1y ago
I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to confirm a potentially fraudulent transaction. They speak perfect English with an American accent, sound very friendly, and have knowledge of your account balance. Thankfully on the first call I realized it was a scam right away, and Google's call screening feature takes good care of the rest. Wish I could forward them to Kitboga[1].
I guess they didn't have as much luck as they wanted scamming Coinbase's customers, and once they had their fun they decided to try extorting Coinbase themselves.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNziOoXDBeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNziOoXDBeg
- VectorLock 1y agoI just switched to iPhone from a pixel device and I’m shook by all the spam calls. How do iPhone users deal with this?
- patatino 1y agoI don’t get any calls, seems to be an US problem?
- dx4100 1y agoI have my phone set to silence Unknown callers. What did you have setup on the Pixel before to block them?
- conductr 1y agoThat’s too heavy handed for me. I get valid calls that I need to answer that aren’t in my contacts. The calls they flag as potential spam and telemarketers has been 100% accurate in my experience so i wish I could just silence those
- vitaflo 1y agoUsually you are expecting these calls tho so you can turn off that feature when you do. If said person calls often, add them to your contacts.
- conductr 1y agoThey could also just easily enhance the feature right? It’s an extra if statement in the code. I get enough calls that it’s not practical to constantly edit a setting that’s like this. There’s nothing else in the settings app I change regularly, it’s mostly set and forget. It’s much better to just silence every spam call manually instead of having to go into voicemail, listen , decide if I need to respond, hope that I’m acting quickly enough that the other person answers when I ring them back, etc. i imagine this works for a lot of people. But if you get enough calls, or get urgent calls for any reason, it’s not ideal. For those that can’t imagine the use cases. Consider you are primary contact for your elderly parent. If they fall in the middle of the night you might be getting a call from any random number. Do not disturb isn’t an option and sometimes the EMS guys will call you from their personal cell phone. Even some services like home security will call from random numbers. If ask a plumber to come over, some random technician will call from their device to talk. If a potential client gets my number somehow, I’d prefer to answer versus them get my voicemail. You have to also factor in that a lot of people don’t even like leaving voicemail so they don’t leave one and I’m left guessing if it mattered that
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- _lvbh 1y agoiPhone user here. I put on airplane mode unless I'm making or expecting a call. Otherwise, I make it clear that email is my primary form of communication.
- dx4100 1y agoAlso, on TMobile if you dial #662#, it'll block the Scam Likely calls at the carrier.
- deepfriedbits 1y agoI had no idea. Thank you!
- stuckkeys 1y agoOh man. They start at 7AM and end around 4-5ish PM. I was hoping the war between Pakistan and India would make these stop. Jk obv. Nobody likes wars. But other than Tmobile are there similar methods for different providers? It can get so annoying. I did restrict calls from known numbers only.
- conductr 1y agoIt’s my biggest gripe. They can pretty accurately flag a number as Spam or Telemarketing but in the “Silence Unknown Callers” setting I can only silence every single unknown caller. I can’t silence every single number that’s not in my contacts. When the plumber calls to confirm he’s in route, my phone needs to ring. Stuff like that.
- bflesch 1y agoiphone has been enshittified for several years now, it seems apple engineers are not using their own phones any more. I can understand it - when you're a millionaire just from your corporate job you won't be a stressed power user of your own iphones.
- conductr 1y agoIt’s not that it got worse, this feature has just never been great. It just feels half baked , which I agree a lot of Apple software has been trending towards. That said, what has increased is the volume of spam calls. So the importance of this feature has also increased. It’s sad because this seems like such a low hanging fruit for a big improvement. At some point in the relatively recent past, they added the indicator of the caller being a spammer or telemarketer. Seems like that would have been a good time to also enhance this filter but it seems nobody ever connected the dots on that one. Or if I’m being even more cynical, some engineer actually decided he’d rather everyone see his work on every incoming spam call instead of his work quietly improving everyone’s experience
- chiggsy 1y ago>some engineer actually decided No sane person would flaunt Apple secrecy in such a fashion whilst employed there. >instead of his work quietly improving everyone’s experiBence Laughable that you feel that Apple engineers have the capacity for this kind of desire in 2025. If they did, Xcode would be way better to use. They cant even quietly improve their own experience.
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- taude 1y agoYeup, I finally broke down went from Android -> IPhone 16 Pro. I like a lot about Apple's personal security policies for their consumers vs Google, but damn, I miss google's automatic call spam detection and management. All day long my Apple phone rings, and I just have to ignore the calls.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoIf it’s says Rogers you know it’s a scam
- ge96 1y agoI never answer my phone, also turned off sound except alarms a couple years ago
- coolcase 1y ago"Yeah yeah... installing your app now... oh there is an error... will try again..."
- HWR_14 1y agoYou turn off the notifications from unknown callers? How does Android handle it?
- modeless 1y agoSometimes you need to answer calls from unknown numbers. Google's call screening feature picks up the phone before it rings and asks the caller why they're calling. If they actually give a good reason, then it shows you the reason as text and you can decide whether to hang up on them or answer. https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9118387 https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9118387
- scarface_74 1y agoSettings -> Phone -> Silence Unknown callers
- parliament32 1y agoYeah you went the wrong way there brother.
- ellisd 1y agoUnfortunately blocking all unknown calls is the only way to sanity. Otherwise we're talking 6-9 calls coming in ALL DAY, EVERY DAY. The calls are coming from new numbers, across multiple area codes. A few months ago I would have advised using Begone (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/begone-spam-call-blocker/id1596818195 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/begone-spam-call-blocker/id159...) to block but that only worked since these calls were isolated to blocks of area codes that were pretty safe to block like 888-XXX-XXXX, but now ZERO of these calls are using a fixed area code that would be relative safe to block.
- VectorLock 1y agoI can't block all calls, but the screening feature on my Pixel did an immense job of filtering out the spam.
- mirzuschwer 1y agoanswer the call and immediately put it on mute. they will hang up and stop calling
- philipwhiuk 1y agoDon't you have caller-pays in the US?
- tziki 1y agoI have the exact same experience. I felt like I went back to a phone from 2018.
- sameline 1y agoVerizon (and I assume many other US carriers) offer junk call identification which your iPhone can block if you have ”Silence Junk Callers” toggled in Settings > Phone > Call Blocking & Identification. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/block-or-avoid-unwanted-calls-iphe4b3f7823/ios https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/block-or-avoid-unwant...
- dx4100 1y agoScams have gotten better since AI. Most of the common spelling mistakes are gone. I was looking through some phishing e-mails the other day out of curiosity and found a weird unicode character mistranslated. Immediately knew it was an artifact of bad translation. So they're not perfect, but they're damn good.
- genghisjahn 1y agoThe common spelling mistakes are there for a reason most of the time.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago> a reason Because people who read the message and think it's professionally written despite the spelling errors have a large overlap with people who will fall for the scam, at least far enough that money is transferred.
- conductr 1y agoI started getting regular Coinbase login confirmation codes text messages with no attempts on my end Same with my Microsoft account actually I usually just ignore it but I assume someone is testing if my email can be used to login.
- modeless 1y agoOh yeah I get the Microsoft account emails, and Instagram ones, randomly (I have an account but never use it). I'm pretty sure SMS 2FA is turned off on my Coinbase account, which is highly recommended.
- panarky 1y agoIf you had any significant assets on Coinbase at any time prior to this breach, spear phishing is the least of your worries. Coinbase not only leaked your full name and address, they also gave up your balances, your transaction history, and images of your government identification. People with "significant" crypto balances are being assaulted on the street and in their own homes, and family members are being kidnapped for ransom. "Significant" in this case can be $10k or less. Until now, your best defense secrecy. Never talk about crypto in public in any way that could be traced to your real-world identity. Thanks to Coinbase that defense is now gone. The bad guys can see who has ever had a significant balance on Coinbase (even if they don't right now), whether that balance was sold for cash and how much, or if you've ever transferred tokens off the exchange to a self-custody wallet. Now the bad guys know who's worth kidnapping for ransom and where you live. For most people, a Google search of your name and home address turns up the names of family members who would would also be lucrative targets for kidnapping and threats of violence. Coinbase will never be forced to reimburse all the damage they've done because the true cost would bankrupt the company.
- krunck 1y agoBut hey, at least by being forced to give crypto exchanges all our personal details we're all super protected from the four horsemen: money laundering, drugs, terrorism and pornography.
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- tsimionescu 1y agoI think that the right lesson to learn here is not "I should store my money with a company I can't trust not to advertise where I live, but without telling them where I live ".
- nradov 1y agoNo one is forced to use a "crypto exchange" in the first place.
- taude 1y agoI got probably three or four in the past week.
- mistrial9 1y ago> They speak perfect English, sound very friendly, and have knowledge of your account balance. .. and are former employees of Coinbase .. oh! just imagining!!
- cyanydeez 1y agoits a shame it'll never stop, and the criminal element is now a legal capitalism
- hooverd 1y agoI wonder if some of that perfect accent might be ML.
- the_clarence 1y agoWhere was the number from? I received an impressive number of phonecalls attempt but thankfully I never answer to unknown numbers. With google call screen they hung up everytime so I assume its a scam.
- lavezzi 1y ago> I have been receiving regular spear phishing calls from these guys, or someone who bought the leaked data, with classic tactics like claiming that I need to confirm a potentially fraudulent transaction. And how long has this been at an increased level? Because i'm not buying the coinbase narrative that they thought this was a systemic issue until they were contacted by the 'cybercriminals'.
- modeless 1y agoIt started around the beginning of April, at the same time as I got an initial email from them about my account information being accessed. Which I'm thinking is probably the same breach as they're talking about here.