Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number"

On 3/16/2025 1:01 AM, AJL wrote:

   Hacking his email wouldn't have got the scammers a way to
bypass 2FA via cellphone, but a SIM swap would. So if the man
had not been using 2FA it's unlikely that he could have been
scammed.

 My phone company has my pin on file and is not 'supposed' to make ANY
changes without me giving it. Course that's no guarantee but at least it's
one more obstacle...
 

   That sounds like a good idea. Though it's hard to see
where all this goes going forward. As everything becomes
computerized, with little human element, most interactions
don't involve people, businesses increasingly move online
and offer only automated
support, and you even need a portable computer to prove
your identity... Identity theft is already rampant. Will we
have life theft, where a hacker calls the police to complain
that your house has been broken into by you, as they take
over your bank account... and you have no recourse as you
try to argue with software that says you don't exist? I'm
increasingly impressed by Charlie Chaplin's foresight in
"Modern Times", from 1936.