Area code blocked for privacy but it is spoofed from my phones number which I have not lived there in many years
There is malware that only captures traffic when visiting banking websites.
Looks like you got phished. Doubt that was the real bank site. Suggest you change your passwords if you logged in to that site, too.
Banks and hospitals sell your information, too.
When my wife gave birth to our son at the hospital, I have to put down my phone number as part of the check in form. Immediately the next day I got call for “Home care services for new mom and baby”.
…hospitals sell your information, too.
I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.
Oh totally. But they don’t sync that information “immediately”. Nor would they ever want to because then the user would know that’s where the information came from.
I don’t think they really care if it’s not actually illegal.
Or they could sell the data in bulk. And the day I put in my number just happens to be the day they sell their database.
…hospitals sell your information, too.
I feel so sorry for those of you living in places with for-profit healthcare.
Either that or you’ve got some malware.
god i love the modern internet.
You might want to consider a more thorough wiping of your area code next time. It’s pretty easy to figure out what it is through the scribbles
Tip: Always write over things you don’t want seen in the same color they were originally written in, if you can’t completely redact it. This fucks with our brain’s ability to distinguish a pattern, which is all reading really is anyway.
or, you know, just put a black bar over it so the information is just completely gone from the image?
scribbling over is never going to actually work, the information is still there for anyone who wants to extract it. It’s like shouting over someone instead of just getting them to shut up.
Yeah that tip really only works for hardcopies, and handwritten ones at that.
and even then you can at least buy some tippex to censor things, and if you want to get advanced i’m sure there are products that straight up remove the ink from the paper.
I know there are specific extra hard erasers for removing pen ink
Which bank?
Op: Name and shame, please.
I would if it wasn’t my employers credit union which would give away too much information about me
You really need to tell Mom to stop spamming you.
You think area code is hidden? It’s not!
989 represent!
My kids complain about Mom spam too.
When, Today?
Yesterday. They like to remind me that Mom on a keypad is 666.
Ahhh… Just noticed that was you calling your mom, not your mom calling you. Good job!
That 666 bit is hysterical 😅
“trusted bank”
lol
Smart, I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in Michigan either
In general I think best practice is to call out “hey, I can see your area code in case you want to edit your post to more fully redact it” then any jokes about “since I wouldn’t want anyone to know I lived in [REDACTED] either!”
I really don’t understand lazy censoring. You can either not use the thin pen tool or just spend a few more seconds making sure it’s unreadable. What’s the point of doing it at all if people can still decipher what you’re obscuring?
Or just increase the size of the pen tool…
Honestly I didn’t try that hard. I don’t live there anymore nor do I know anyone or anything that is still there so who cares if people know I guess
I agree with the other reply and would honestly love an answer, if only to get a peek under the hood of people who do this.
If you didn’t try that hard because you didn’t care, again, why did you even bother? It’s like trying to scoop water with a colander, on some level you have to know it’s wasted effort, right?
its more than likely “it can’t hurt, so might as well” more than anything.
If they really didnt want it, they wouldn’t have posted this at all, or like other suggested properly censored it, they simply tried here, deemed “most people won’t bother” and moved on from it.
The question was why bother
I you know it because you are most probably from there or US.
No, it’s because of how poorly obscured it is in the 5th one from the top - there’s no other numbers it could be.
Exactly, I was surprised that 989 was even a valid area code tbh, just doesn’t look right
Imagine not living in 616 though.
That’s Pure Michigan, friend.
Same happened to me when I signed up with a mobile carrier
Definitely not 989. lol
I get the same crap from doctor visits out here. Guess the assistants arent paid enough to properly police their bosses systems
For bank stuff and government documents I use a prepaid number I got on ebay on an old flip phone I remove the battery from.
Cool story
Yet another reason why credit unions are better.
