I know it's easy to second-guess someone after they've explained that they're describing a scam, but:
> The thing that's crazy is that if I followed the 2 "best practices" of verifying the phone number + getting them to send an email to you from a legit domain, I would have been compromised.
He didn't follow the first of those best practices. He just looked up a phone number that the caller also read out to him, and didn't call it. And "Solomon" also explicitly told him he couldn't call.
I honestly think that at this point, no incoming phone call can ever be trusted.
> The thing that's crazy is that if I followed the 2 "best practices" of verifying the phone number + getting them to send an email to you from a legit domain, I would have been compromised.
He didn't follow the first of those best practices. He just looked up a phone number that the caller also read out to him, and didn't call it. And "Solomon" also explicitly told him he couldn't call.
I honestly think that at this point, no incoming phone call can ever be trusted.