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		throwaway744678 on Oct 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I was just subjected to the most credible phishing... Wow, I am pretty sure most banks require a phone number when you open an account. Or do you give them a random number?

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Oct 9, 2019 [–]

Well, many require that you fill the phone number field, but just entering zeros does the job. If anyone (not just banks) does extended validation, I enter some syntactically valid but unallocatable number, that has always done the job so far.

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