Re: Mobile banking: alarm as fraudsters take over handsets and raid accounts

On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:02:26 +0100, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

Tweed wrote:
>

It’s usually a sim swap fraud. Somehow convince the mobile operator to port
the number to another mobile operator where the new sim is in the
possession of the fraudster.

>
Whenever I've requested porting my number to a different operator, I've
received texts giving 24 or more hours notice to port.
>
Which operators *don't* operate such a safeguard?

The fraudsters phone pretending to be the operator, to say that they
have had a SIM-swap request.


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