Strawberrry
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Sim Swapping is a social engineering method which allows someone to access your sim card directly from your carrier. This is a serious type of fraud and many people are vulnerable to this if no previous precautions have been used. This technique can be devastating and result in financial loss and distress...
Step #1: Call Your Carrier
This is important and an EASY step to take place to lower the chances of someone being able to get your sim. However this step should NOT be the only step you take, as many simmers will have employees working for carrirrers.
Tell the employee at the carrier that you want them to:
a) Leave a note on your record, saying to not give your sim out online and that you want all new sims shipped PHYSICALLY to your registered address ONLY (check it is current).
b) You want to set a PIN/PASSWORD.
Step #2: Remove Your Phone & Add Gauth
Remove your phone as a 2FA option, ESPECIALLY for your main email and use Google Authenticator instead. This is the number one way to counter sim attacks and pretty much works to counter any access to your email.
Also, remove your phone number for ANY hot bitcoin wallets (eg: Blockchain) and link them to a separate email (eg: Protonmail). Or just get a trezor and put it in a safe....
Step #3: Use Sim Lock
Although a carrier can undo a sim lock, it won't immediately be obvious to an attacker and could serve as a nuisence and delay them.
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Step #4: Know The Signs
If you are on your phone at the time of the attack, you will almost certainally know something is wrong. You will lose all signal and will not be able to send texts or calls. If this does happen, you should immediately call your carrier and explain what happened. The attacker may have set a pin if you didn't already, so your carrier may ask for ID.
Ingat-ingat mga paps!
Step #1: Call Your Carrier
This is important and an EASY step to take place to lower the chances of someone being able to get your sim. However this step should NOT be the only step you take, as many simmers will have employees working for carrirrers.
Tell the employee at the carrier that you want them to:
a) Leave a note on your record, saying to not give your sim out online and that you want all new sims shipped PHYSICALLY to your registered address ONLY (check it is current).
b) You want to set a PIN/PASSWORD.
Step #2: Remove Your Phone & Add Gauth
Remove your phone as a 2FA option, ESPECIALLY for your main email and use Google Authenticator instead. This is the number one way to counter sim attacks and pretty much works to counter any access to your email.
Also, remove your phone number for ANY hot bitcoin wallets (eg: Blockchain) and link them to a separate email (eg: Protonmail). Or just get a trezor and put it in a safe....
Step #3: Use Sim Lock
Although a carrier can undo a sim lock, it won't immediately be obvious to an attacker and could serve as a nuisence and delay them.
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Step #4: Know The Signs
If you are on your phone at the time of the attack, you will almost certainally know something is wrong. You will lose all signal and will not be able to send texts or calls. If this does happen, you should immediately call your carrier and explain what happened. The attacker may have set a pin if you didn't already, so your carrier may ask for ID.
Ingat-ingat mga paps!