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How do you trick employees at mobile phone stores into seizing control of a phone number? You give him a fake ID, he checks the ID card's serial number, citizen
by darkhorn 7y ago
How do you trick employees at mobile phone stores into seizing control of a phone number? You give him a fake ID, he checks the ID card's serial number, citizenship number, name, surname, date of birth in the mobile operator's application (which checks it from the governmental API service) or himself from the e-government web site. In this way he understands wheter the ID is real or not and wheter it was stolen or not. If it is real it hands you a new SIM in few minutes. (now it is even harder with ID cards with chips).
If you want to change the owner of the number the employee scans both of your documents and sends it to a governmental bureau and if they approve then the number is transported to the new person. Which it takes at least few days (I think it is intentionally slow).
This one will not save your Google account but it will save your bank account. If you change your SIM card you cannot login to your bank account. You need to recreate a password by calling the bank and answering tons of questions and revalidating your phone number. You might wonder how does a bank knows that a SIM card has been changed. I wonder it too. But the mobile operator probably informs all banks via a API. U have faced this personally 2 or 3 times and my friends have faced it too. So, it is real. (not related but there is also mobile digital signature thing that you can login to bank account, mobile phone operator's web site or your e-government account)
This is how it works in Turkey. I know United Statians don't like 1984 style states but I wanted to share.