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

In comp.mobile.android Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-03-15 12:35, Newyana2 wrote:

On 3/15/2025 7:46 AM, Java Jive wrote:

On 2025-03-14 18:49, Theo wrote:

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Speculating, I would guess they started with the SIM swap.

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The original report suggests that they started with an email hack, and
used that to facilitate the SIM swap.

 
   That's not what it said.

 
Look back directly up thread to my post of 2025-03-06 19:53, where I
quote the single sentence in the original report that stated that an
email hack had occurred before the SIM-swap scam was done.

What's a complicating factor is that Virgin Media O2 is both his mobile
phone provider and his email provider.  I don't know how integrated VM and
O2 systems are since the merger, but it's possible one login allows access
to both the emails and the mobile account.  That is an unfortunate single
point of failure.

Theo