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SIM Card Swap: How To Stop The SCAM?
I just learned that fraudsters can get enough information (from online or a phishing email you click on) to get T-Mobile to swap out the SIM card on your phone for one in their possession. After the ...
It happens because t mobile didn't exactly tell you the truth. Or at least didn't explain it right. When you swap a sim card, t mobile sends a text message to the device in question. It explains that you have 10 minutes to tell them it was not you, or they will complete the swap. And that's total BS. Because chances are you wont notice until its to late. Then you will call Tmobile and they can probably fix it. But by that time they have already changed all your email passwords, and changed the passwords on all your credit card online accounts and pointed two factor authentication on your Amazon and PayPal accounts to their own emails and cell phones.
