☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Apr 9, 2024

"The #money was from my rainy-day account, so I consider myself fortunate there, but my #DigitalIdentity has been completely trashed."

“Phone porting is a legitimate practice people use to move a phone number from one telecommunication provider to another.”

#PhonePorting / #SIMSwap / #Optus / #Australia <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-10/optus-customer-victim-phone-porting-sim-swap-scam/103676088>

Optus customer loses $10,000, digital identity in phone porting, SIM-swap scam

Andrew Ryder's rainy-day bank account was drained in just one day. It happened via phone porting and SIM-swap fraud, but the veteran has no idea how scammers had his data in the first place.

ABC News
denabondJan 19, 2023
been trying to port my phone away from my former company to another one, what a pain in the butt #phoneporting #cellphones #paininthebutt
ITSEC NewsNov 12, 2019
Sextortionist whisks away sex tapes using just a phone number - The SIM-swap victim knew he was in trouble when he got a 3:30 a.m. message about his phone service... more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/11/12/sextortionist-whisks-away-sex-tapes-using-just-a-phone-number/ #2-factorauthentication #randallbaran-chong #securitythreats #phoneporting #simswapfraud #simswapping #sextortion #simjacking #sim-jacked #law&order #dataloss #sextapes #simswaps
Sextortionist whisks away sex tapes using just a phone number

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