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[–] stepan@lemmy.cafe 64 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Skilled scammers manipulate their victims so much that they don't believe their actual bank telling them it's a scam. I don't think this will help.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

There are a lot more unskilled scammers looking for low hanging fruit

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

If this intervenes early enough it might.

[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

So you're suggesting that all scammers are skilled.

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm not sure scams are so subtle. For example fishing emails are often so obviously scam that people think there are designed to filter very gullible people or very unlucky persons who actually waited for a call with the exact same context as the scammer will give.