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Couldn't T-Mobile send their own SMS's to their employees pretending to increase the payout to $600, then fire any employee that replies? Or maybe change the t
by avidiax 3y ago
Couldn't T-Mobile send their own SMS's to their employees pretending to increase the payout to $600, then fire any employee that replies?
Or maybe change the terms of use for the employee line discount to allow monitoring SMS content or metadata for security threats to the companies users?
- FeistySkink 3y agoOr pay people enough so they don't get tempted to begin with.
- ApolloFortyNine 3y agoBillionaires have literally committed financial crimes for more money. Pay has very little to do with it.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y agoBillionairism. Addiction to the accrual of wealth and the power wealth affords. They should be in asylums not boardrooms.
- ssl-3 3y agoThere's plenty of room for them in the Fletcher Memorial Home.
- infotainment 3y agoSuch a weird song, yet surprisingly memorable. “And give them a home / a little place of their own…”
- renewiltord 3y agoLol Martha Stewart has $400m and she got done for $230k worth of insider trading. And Matt Levine every now and then talks about a guy making a few million a year insider insider trading a few thousand and settling.
- DaveExeter 3y agoWasn't it because she lied about it?
- akerl_ 3y agoThe point is that she was already rich. High pay doesn’t stop people from doing crimes.
- selimthegrim 3y agoBechtolsheim too
- renewiltord 3y agoThat is exactly who I was thinking of but I couldn't remember the name. $16 b and he was fingered for $400k hahaha.
- paxys 3y agoWhat is the dollar value of getting access to a phone number belonging to a celebrity or a billionaire? I don't know the exact amount, but it is 100% more than what T-Mobile can feasibly pay all of its employees. Do you think security guards protecting the federal reserve's gold vault get paid more than the value of the gold in that vault?
- LASR 3y agoYou could solve this by simply sending out a memo not to respond to such offers or risk termination.
- gabeio 3y agoHow is knowingly doing sim swapping not already a dick move? Honestly what the OP suggested is simply a sting operation. Your reaction to it is ... more scary.
- tw04 3y agoIt shouldn’t just be termination, it should be jail time. It’s no better than selling a gun to a person you know intends to use it to commit a crime.
- UberFly 3y agoT-Mobile should make a few loud examples out of those proven to be doing this. Deterrent is the best medicine. Of course they don't want this kind of attention so they'll do as little as possible.
- akerl_ 3y agoJust so we’re clear: getting shot is quite a bit worse than having your phone number stolen.
- fortran77 3y agoMany people--rich or poor--would rather get shot and survive than lose all their wealth.
- datavirtue 3y agoWe talking a grazing, or a colostomy bag and a wheel chair?
- fortran77 3y ago
- actionfromafar 3y agoT-mobile could do many things (not sure it’s legal to pretend you want to pay for simswaps, but that’s beside the point), but first we need to establish why they would care. I haven’t seen much evidence in the past they would.
- masspro 3y agoThey don't care. Source: got swapped on TMo, front-line CSR fixed it but no one else at the business cared; would not even refund my final bill. Solution: move to Google Fi. It has a word-of-mouth reputation for being resistant to this, which I believe if nothing else because Google has almost no human support to bribe/phish.
- unstatusthequo 3y agoStill seen swaps with Google Fi. Efani is a much better option if you actually want protection. I am a cyber lawyer and that’s our recommendation to any clients who care. I can’t recall if Efani is throttled on AT&T or Verizon as MVNO, but one isn’t. Easy to ask them.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> I can’t recall if Efani is throttled on AT&T or Verizon as MVNO T-Mobile blocks my Google Voice calls. They have to run inside a VPN.
- gruez 3y ago>Efani is a much better option if you actually want protection Their website says it's $99/month. That seems a bit steep to me considering all they're providing over a regular provider that charges $29/month is that they do a bit more verification when you claim that you lost your sim. It's not even clear whether they protect against a port-out attack, which is probably worth worrying about as well.
- twright0 3y ago
- fortran77 3y agoThey can 1. require two employees PLUS an agent on the phone to do it. 2. call the desired number and speak to whoever answers and ask if they're aware the number will be ported 3. have a 24-hour period to try to reach someone at that number before the swap occurs. 4. Offer a very large bounty ($10,000 or more) for providing evidence that a co-worker is taking bribes
- datavirtue 3y agoI believe there are telecommunications regulations in olved that prevent them from erecting barriers during the sim swap process. This might be one of the mains reasons it's such a juicy vector.
- fortran77 3y agoYou may be right! They might not be able to do a "24 hour cooling off" period. Even sending text messages to that number once an hour for a day saying "TEXT STOP TO STOP SIM TRANSFER OR CALL 611" would stop a lot of these. I'll have to google a bit and see if they are restricted.
- viewtransform 3y agoBuried at the bottom of the article is a link to T-Mobile’s New SIM Protection https://tmo.report/2022/12/t-mobiles-new-sim-protection-is-now-live-heres-how-to-enable-it/ https://tmo.report/2022/12/t-mobiles-new-sim-protection-is-n...