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Originally Posted by Chris
If they ask for different letters over multiple phone calls, they could eventually harvest an entire password.
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Yes, but asking for the whole password on one call isn't any better, hence why they do it. Same goes for websites. Do you have any better ideas?
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I hate it when service providers call me and ask for my date of birth to prove my identity - that's one of the key pieces of personally identifying details and nobody should be cold calling and asking for it. Like the queen, I have two birthdays ... The real one I give to service providers when it is legally required, and the ceremonial one I give out to anyone who insists on having it in order to sign me up, even though they don't have any need for it.
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Not to mention many people's DoB can be found with little digging on social media sites.
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Originally Posted by jungleguy
Whenever I get a cold caller that asks for my password, I always give them a completely wrong password. A good way of filtering out a bogus call at an early stage, its also quite amusing.
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Hah! Hadn't thought of that.
To be fair I've never had such a call that I wasn't expecting already.