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This is silly. Nobody is going to sim swap you to steal your paypal funds, getting the money out is way too difficult.
by prvit 4y ago
This is silly. Nobody is going to sim swap you to steal your paypal funds, getting the money out is way too difficult.
- 2arrs2ells 4y agoI’ve seen sim swaps to get desirable instagram handles. I have to believe it’s easier to extract money from a PayPal account takeover than insta.
- prvit 4y agoThis is incorrect. Instagram names are essentially impossible to recover (unless you know an insider) and there’s a liquid market for them. Same is not true of paypal funds.
- bakugo 4y agoI have an instagram account that I basically don't use, created probably 10+ years ago. At one point I randomly decided to log in and found that my username was randomized and someone else (not even a brand account) was using my original name. I never got any emails about my account being accessed, my password was random, no login activity, etc. To this day I'm still wondering if the account was compromised without a trace or if instagram just decided to give my name to someone else.
- prvit 4y agoUnless your email was also compromised, your name was taken by an FB employee. They do this all the time for their friends and whoever might bribe them.
- quickthrower2 4y agoWhat about buying something?
- prvit 4y agoKeep in mind that stolen credit cards sell for a couple of $, having a sim swapped paypal account wouldn’t offer you much of an advantage here. The reality is that cashing out significant amounts of money this way tends to be rather difficult.