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Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)

submitted 8 months ago by 0x0@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.

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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Props to him for talking about it. A lot of people get too embarrassed to tell anyone they got scammed. The reality is that phishing works on a ton of people and we should avoid shaming the victims. Everyone's acts like they're a digital security expert until their credit card gets stolen.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Told a family member the same when she almost got tricked by a scammer & called me to see if it was legit. They wouldn't try it if it wasn't convincing enough to catch people in the scam to make it worth their time to do this crime instead of some other.