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They 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 nu
by fortran77 3y ago
They 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...