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Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)

submitted 8 months ago by 0x0@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.

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[–] nivenkos@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (14 children)

The real answer here is to have decent digital ID as 2-factor authentication.

This scam would be practically impossible in Sweden with BankID for example.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He gave them his CC number over the phone. How would Sweden's BankID protect against that?

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

More that you'd never need to provide it, but many transactions will also require 2FA, even by the credit card.

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