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submitted 1 week ago by Thatoneguy to c/[email protected]

Area code blocked for privacy but it is spoofed from my phones number which I have not lived there in many years

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[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago

Looks like you got phished. Doubt that was the real bank site. Suggest you change your passwords if you logged in to that site, too.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Banks and hospitals sell your information, too.

When my wife gave birth to our son at the hospital, I have to put down my phone number as part of the check in form. Immediately the next day I got call for "Home care services for new mom and baby".

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

...hospitals sell your information, too.

I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Oh totally. But they don't sync that information "immediately". Nor would they ever want to because then the user would know that's where the information came from.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I don't think they really care if it's not actually illegal.

Or they could sell the data in bulk. And the day I put in my number just happens to be the day they sell their database.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I guess it depends on what OP meant by "immediately". If they meant the same day, maybe. If they meant within seconds or a few minutes, which is what I interpreted it as, then probably not. It takes time to transfer data out of a secure network, unless they gave the company direct access to a feed from the website, which would be really risky for a bank to give any organization a direct, real-time feed of any kind that is on the same network as financial data. I mean unless the bank also owned the spamming company, but that seems risky for reputation.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

...hospitals sell your information, too.

I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Either that or you’ve got some malware.

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