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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to donate to the Internet Archive again: for those who want to and can afford it: https://archive.org/donate/

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just something funny: First time I donated to archive.org my bank blocked my card due to being a "suspicious payment".
I had to physically go to the bank because due to security reasons I couldn't unblock it in internet banking.
The high security looked like this:
"Hello. You blocked my card due to suspicious payment."
"OK, what's your name"
"[name]"
"I see. Did you make that payment?"
"Yes."
"OK, I'll send an e-mail to management. It should be unblocked in a few hours. Have a nice day."
"Bye."

They didn't want to see my ID card, not even the debit card. Nor sign anything. Just and only hear my name. "Security".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I had my insurance company ask me for my phone number for security purposes. It was an old one I had since replaced and forgotten, so they read it out to me and asked me to confirm it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This has happened to me with my own bank sometimes, though thankfully all I have to do is call them, report the blocked payment, and answer the same useless questions that don't really prove anything security-wise, and that's it. I'm not sure why they insist on doing this song and dance, but at least I don't have to drive all the way to one of their locations to get it resolved, lol.