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Terence Eden
@edent.tel

You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraudulent payment. "Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right? The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank." 🧵 1/4

Terence Eden
@edent.tel

OK. But what if I'm waiting on a call from the hospital? Or if I've applied for a job recently? Or I run a business? Telling people not to answer the phone to avoid scamming is like saying "avoid STDs by never having sex." We know abstinence isn't the answer.

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Techsticles
@techsticles.bsky.social

I use this new in the last 20 years feature called visual voicemail to determine why someone called me and then if I need to call them back I call them back on their actual published number.