Timeline for How can I ask (or determine) if someone on the phone is human without offending them?
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| Apr 27, 2018 at 16:52 | comment | added | Thomas Carlisle | Yes, get their number, use a lookup service to confirm it is likely your doctor's office, and call them. Even then, it is not an impossibility that your call isn't intercepted and you are speaking to a malicious third party, but the chance is small. It wouldn't be terribly inappropriate to ask them to provide information they should know which a 3rd party wouldn't. | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 21:25 | comment | added | WoJ | @jpaugh you can call them back | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 19:44 | comment | added | jpaugh | I'll buy that. But how exactly do you verify the other person is who they say they are? It's not like they can show you a photo ID. | |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 11:38 | history | answered | Thomas Carlisle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |