FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls

Re:FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' ove... by dkersten on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:30AM (#19160887)

Where I am, there isn't really a problem with robocalls and not many scam calls, thankfully, but I still refuse to give out details over the phone, especially if they rang me.

I'm still shocked at the amount of times I got legit calls from my bank that start off with "please confirm your details". No, YOU confirm your details. I always tell them sorry, I have no proof that they are who they say, but they usually just say "No problem, call us back on the number on the back of your credit card" or somesuch, which is fine. I just wish they said that right away and didn't ask to confirm details, since it makes scammers lives easier.

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Re:FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' ove... by tialaramex on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:14AM (#19161966)

My good bank has a password. I actually usually can't remember what it is, but that's fine since it's their password and I'll recognise it when they say it. "Oh, that's right! You _are_ the bank"

But they never proactively asked me to set that up, it's just that I went around this "I can't authenticate to you first, so I'll have to phone you" loop and I pointed out it would work better with a password when I called them back and to my surprise they were like "Yes, we can do that, what password should we say?" and set it up immediately.

So, worth asking I guess?

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Re:FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' ove... by dkersten on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:45PM (#19167570)

Interesting. I’ll have to try next time.

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