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Re:Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to ... by everybodyknows on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:27PM (#19051077)
A counter-measure to such attacks would be a "block" against the usual "hard pull" from Equifax or other credit raters when opening a bank account.
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Re:Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to ... by siruncledrew on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:33AM (#19051904)
Usually a hard pull isn't done for a bank account (it is for loans though). A soft pull is done instead, which has essentially no credit impact.
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