Comments on: Credit Card Phone Security http://boakes.org/cc-phone-sec/ nice of you to drop by. tea? Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:31:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Dave http://boakes.org/cc-phone-sec/#comment-5622 Dave Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:00:12 +0000 http://boakes.org/lightning-struck#comment-5622 It's amazing how often some banks and credit card companies do this. I sometimes give them the details - but actually change them so that they're incorrect. Like you I then try to find the publicly available telephone number and then inform them of what's going on. I get even more alarmed about the guys who phone who are obviously speaking from Mumbai or some other distant shores - outsourced by the penny pinching banks no doubt. Yet another problem is that now we all know about phishing email scams, how do you tell when a bank actually sends out a genuine email. Even the tell tale spelling errors and poor grammar detectors are starting to fail, as I've had some poorly worded messages from banks which I think really were genuine. It’s amazing how often some banks and credit card companies do this. I sometimes give them the details - but actually change them so that they’re incorrect. Like you I then try to find the publicly available telephone number and then inform them of what’s going on. I get even more alarmed about the guys who phone who are obviously speaking from Mumbai or some other distant shores - outsourced by the penny pinching banks no doubt.

Yet another problem is that now we all know about phishing email scams, how do you tell when a bank actually sends out a genuine email. Even the tell tale spelling errors and poor grammar detectors are starting to fail, as I’ve had some poorly worded messages from banks which I think really were genuine.

]]> By: themaxx.ca http://boakes.org/cc-phone-sec/#comment-5127 themaxx.ca Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:33:11 +0000 http://boakes.org/lightning-struck#comment-5127 Ouch! That's scarry! That was quick thinking ;) Ouch! That’s scarry!
That was quick thinking ;)

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