[retiredguy123]

My Vanguard Investment account uses a recorded voice message as my password.

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

My Vanguard Investment account uses a recorded voice message as my password.

Hmmmmm, I just now called mine, for the first time in months, and got a real person immediately who asked me for an account number and then took me through the rest of the layered security part that I had set up. That did not used to happen. Nobody said anything about my voice, so maybe they have it, maybe not. But they are not getting my eyeballs!

I love it when a real person that I have called asks me security questions, just don't collect visible parts of physical me. (Yeah, I know. It's too late.)

(Speaking of cyberspace, I like to listen to podcasts with my AirPods when I am doing other things, too. One of my favorites is Freakonomics. The most recent one is titled "Is Google Getting Worse?" It is an update of one about Google that Freakonomics did a while back. It gets into various aspects of how Google butters its bread and also talks about what's out there trying to compete. Info gathering is getting more sophisticated by the minute. I just hope the security of our gathered information is getting more sophisticated by the second.)

Boomer

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Hmmmmm, I just now called mine, for the first time in months, and got a real person immediately who asked me for an account number and then took me through the rest of the layered security part that I had set up. That did not used to happen. Nobody said anything about my voice, so maybe they have it, maybe not. But they are not getting my eyeballs!

I love it when a real person that I have called asks me security questions, just don't collect visible parts of physical me. (Yeah, I know. It's too late.)

(Speaking of cyberspace, I like to listen to podcasts with my AirPods when I am doing other things, too. One of my favorites is Freakonomics. The most recent one is titled "Is Google Getting Worse?" It is an update of one about Google that Freakonomics did a while back. It gets into various aspects of how Google butters its bread and also talks about what's out there trying to compete. Info gathering is getting more sophisticated by the minute. I just hope the security of our gathered information is getting more sophisticated by the second.)

Boomer

I think you can get a voice password if you want. You would just call them and make the recording to use in the future. When I call, they ask me to say:

"At Vanguard, my voice is my password"

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I think you can get a voice password if you want. You would just call them and make the recording to use in the future. When I call, they ask me to say:

"At Vanguard, my voice is my password"

I call my local contact first, on her private line, when she is not in, and then I let that number get me through to whoever is on duty wherever they are. My guess is they must have my voice now. Either that or my phone number is telling them who I am.

Today I had a question that needed a walk through. I had a DUH! moment when I got the answer. It was so obvious, I should have figured it out on my own. I appreciated the real person's help though.

Boomer

PS: Speaking of voices, my sister, my daughter, and my granddaughter have been said to sound like me on phone calls. I am not worried about them getting into my account. I just can't buy it that a voice is like a fingerprint.

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Hmmmmm, I just now called mine, for the first time in months, and got a real person immediately who asked me for an account number and then took me through the rest of the layered security part that I had set up. That did not used to happen. Nobody said anything about my voice, so maybe they have it, maybe not. But they are not getting my eyeballs!

I love it when a real person that I have called asks me security questions, just don't collect visible parts of physical me. (Yeah, I know. It's too late.)

(Speaking of cyberspace, I like to listen to podcasts with my AirPods when I am doing other things, too. One of my favorites is Freakonomics. The most recent one is titled "Is Google Getting Worse?" It is an update of one about Google that Freakonomics did a while back. It gets into various aspects of how Google butters its bread and also talks about what's out there trying to compete. Info gathering is getting more sophisticated by the minute. I just hope the security of our gathered information is getting more sophisticated by the second.)

Boomer

Would not be so bad if it were one eye, but the £*****s want both of them!

[Lea N]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I have found that blocking phone numbers is totally ineffective. Scammers use millions of different numbers when they call. I tried several call blocking apps, but none of them worked very well. The only thing that has worked for me is to leave my phone on "do not disturb" all the time with the exception of numbers that are stored in my contacts list. I still get calls from scammers, but I don't hear them, and they can leave a voice mail if they want to.

Thank you for this info.