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UPDATE: Bank of America is using phone numbers from 3rd party databases to authenticate and verify users (www.reddit.com)

submitted 2 years ago by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth

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[–] OppositeOfOxymoron 1 points 2 years ago

My guess is that this is to flag scammers that are using old leaked data. They might have one of your old phone numbers from one of the thousands of other leaks, and they'll choose the number they recognize that is old and invalid. Then they know the attempt isn't legit, and shuts it down.