I wuz robbed.

More specifically, 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. And *then* he tried to do it again, a week later!

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyb

1/

Long thread/2 

Show thread

Long thread/3 

Show thread

Long thread/4 

Show thread

Long thread/5 

Show thread

Long thread/6 

Show thread

Long thread/7 

Long thread/8 

Long thread/9 

Long thread/10 

Long thread/11 

Long thread/12 

Long thread/13 

Long thread/14 

Long thread/15 

Long thread/16 

Long thread/17 

Long thread/18 

Long thread/19 

Long thread/20 

Long thread/21 

Long thread/22 

Long thread/23 

Long thread/24 

Long thread/25 

Long thread/26 

Long thread/27 

Long thread/28 

Long thread/29 

Long thread/30 

Long thread/31 

Long thread/32 

Long thread/33 

Follow

Long thread/eof 

· Librem Social · 1 · 1 · 9

Long thread/eof 

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Librem Social

Librem Social is an opt-in public network. Messages are shared under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license terms. Policy.

Stay safe. Please abide by our code of conduct.

(Source code)

image/svg+xml Librem Chat image/svg+xml