Your phone number could be stolen, giving thieves access to your accounts. Robert Ross had never heard of the crime of “SIM swapping” until he became a victim. “I saw a notification for a withdrawal ...

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The convenience of eSIM cards has opened a potential security hole for bad actors. Smartphones have been a boon to productivity and convenience. Many consumers have shifted their banking and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — Scams evolve as quickly as technology changes. A WUSA9 viewer emailed us about a warning she received from a relative regarding SIM swapping and asked us to verify if it is a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — SIM-swapping is a growing ...

Experts have raised the alarm about SIM swapping fraud after the number of recorded scams surged tenfold in a year. There was a 1,055 per cent increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in ...

WAKULLA COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) - The Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office is warning of a SIM card swapping scam, per a social media post. A SIM card is the small chip inside your phone that lets people make ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas — A Round Rock man was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing $600,000 worth of cryptocurrency through a SIM card swapping scheme. According to court documents, investigators ...

After years of inaction, the FCC this week said that it’s finally going to protect consumers against a scam that takes control of their cell phone numbers by deceiving employees who work for mobile ...

A subscriber identity module (SIM) was traditionally a small, removable card in your mobile phone that identified your phone number and authenticated your identity to a mobile network. When you got a ...