Sim swapping/Sunday June 15 Orlando Sentinel
Hi read this article and could not believe what I read. I called my cell provider and my bank only to be told this sims swapping is impossible to hack into your bank accounts etc! Actually new/most phones don’t even have a sims card to remove now! Please advise Thank you Confidential pls.
Terry Says
The new phones have SIMS — just not removable ones! But this is the “cloud” information that allows you to transfer seamlessly to a new phone when you upgrade. And if your sim info is stolen, then the thieves gain access to your texts — and hijack them to use the SMS messages banks send, asking for your approval of a money transfer! Read the column carefully. Then contact your provider — ATT, Verizon, etc — and ask them for the procedure to LOCK YOUR SIM info.
