With the possibility of the federal consumer financial protection bureau being diminished or eliminated,I offer the following for your consideration;
Protect yourself and all your assets from scams.As AI takes hold,the number of scams that will come over the phone,in email,in real mail,in internet searches,in text messages,in link on web pages between news stories is beginning to multiply exponentially.
So if you have not already frozen your credit,please do it,it’s not difficult to do and turn off temporarily and refreeze.Thereafter,run your free annual credit report and check it for bad or suspicious information.
Make sure all,and i mean all access to any of your financial accounts including banking,credit card, investment and retirement is protected using 2 factor or multi factor authentication and pass keys are supposed to be state of the art.
Stop answering calls from unknown callers,let them go to voice mail and i think that alone will allow you to screen out scams.
And be extremely wary of AI generated search results,they cannot yet be trusted without verification.
Keep all your electronic devices up-to-date making sure all operating systems,security updates and applications are checking and updated frequently.
In conclusion;
Remember,there are perhaps millions of human and maybe billions of electronic bots out there that are trying to steal from what you have worked-out your life to build,so is time to put in some effort to protect yourself and your assets against any potential attack.
Given your bank details to a caller claiming to be a bank customer care is very risky, no matter how busy or unwell you can be just don't trying giving out your bank details on phone instead wait until, you are able to go straight to the bank to clarify your issues with them.
Fraudster and scammers are everywhere, that has full details about your transaction and back details they are only looking for your confirmation in other access your funds, therefore you have to secure your bank details and password from people that you don't trust also from strange calls to you.