Experts have raised the alarm about SIM swapping fraud after the number of recorded scams surged tenfold in a year. There was a 1,055 per cent increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in ...

Jeff Drobman knew something was wrong when Bank of America alerts popped up on his phone. “I started to get notifications that someone tried to log into my account, that my password had been changed,” ...

Criminals are increasingly using a technique called “SIM swapping” to steal personal information and gain access to your accounts via your phone. SIM swapping is a crime where criminals steal your ...

Cellular providers offer all kinds of security and data encryption to their customers, but there's one task users should ...

(WSPA) – Imagine someone stealing your phone number without ever having access to your phone. The FBI warns SIM card swapping is a scam that’s on the rise, and the simple theft can give scammers just ...

Billions of rands are lost to SIM-swap fraud in South Africa every year. A selfie and a biometric check could be the solution ...

MARLTON, New Jersey (WPVI) -- More and more criminals are taking over our cell phones and stealing our money, even bypassing two-factor authentication. The Action News Troubleshooters have some tips ...

A San Fernando Valley, California, man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after orchestrating a massive fraud operation that targeted dozens of victims, many of them elderly.

Gregg Bennett is an entrepreneur in Bellevue, Wash., and he knows a bit about tech. So when his smart phone started acting funny one day last April, he got a bad feeling. "I was having trouble getting ...

Identity thieves have a new way of gaining access to your finances. Even if you’ve frozen your credit report, they can grab your money by taking over your phone number. It’s called “SIM swapping.” ...

MTN Ghana has rolled out a self-service SIM swap feature designed to spare customers the ordeal of visiting a service centre ...

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