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For most of us, a mobile phone 📱 is one of our most important belongings. It’s almost like a second brain – it's how we connect to work, family and friends, it’s an assistant, a map, a creative tool, and it’s the key to a flood of personal information. If your phone goes missing, it’s annoying, but replaceable. But what if it’s not your phone that goes missing, but your phone number? 🤔 That’s when everything you do online, including banking and investments, can become vulnerable to hackers looking for big payouts. 🎙️ In this episode of Nickel & Crime, we’re telling the story of SIM-swapping: the theft of mobile phone numbers which hold the key to all our data - and for a lot of us, all our money. 🎧Tune in to Nickel & Crime now: A SIM-ple Plan: The Dark Art of SIM Swapping and Cell Phone Hijacking https://spoti.fi/3Wntsn0

David Booth

LSEG-Risk Intelligence | Account & Identity Verification, Risk Management Solutions

2mo

Mobile phone carriers need to enact facial recognition upon SIM card activation or some other layer needs to be implemented. Threat-actors still walk into stores and pay $100 cash to $15hr employees for access.

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