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Mitch was satisfied thinking that the bank was already looking into it, since the attacker pretending to be the bank didn’t ask for any details /raise any flags.



For the point I am making, it does not really matter what Mich was thinking, but his behaviour over the weekend suggests that he was not entirely comfortable with the outcome. What do you suppose he was checking for? I would guess that he did not need to see his balance more than once.

He says that his suspicions were tweaked, near the end of the call, by the scammer giving an old address for him, and apparently his girlfriend was a good deal more suspicious: "Anyway, the whole time my girlfriend is sitting next to me listening to this conversation and she’s like, ‘This sounds like bullshit.'”




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