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Yes, why would you accept the phone number given to you by this stranger calling you as legit?


You don't, but large organizations can have a lot of entry points (or none... but that's a different topic), so you let the caller pick the inbound number that will actually reach them or their department, but then you still independently verify that the number belongs to the organization before trusting it.




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