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@FiddleSix @futurebird @waldoj

At least in Europe (where the following would work) the lesson is, always that you call the bank.

"What card you are calling about? ... OK I call you back on the service number"

You never talk about anything (not even your name or whether that's one of your cards or your address) with the caller if the other party has called you.

My bank, unfortunately, has become pretty sluggish and phone service which was very good for decades (most of my life) until a year ago, is now not any more. I might have to change if this continues.

@waldoj @futurebird

I am pretty sure it was actually the first stage of a slightly more elaborate scam. Something along the lines: OK, then we're gonna cancel this and you will get a SMS from the bank which you need to authorize for the cancelling to become valid.

Something along these lines. Depends on the exact amount and flavor of "verification voodoo" the bank has chosen to sprinkle over their processes.

Of course by doing the verification thing you'd verify a transaction or authorize another phone call happening in parallel with the bank.

Pretty sure I heard about scams that work like that recently. I am, though, too lazy to find the references in my link dumps.