SIM Swap Attack - Are they Hacking Your Phone?

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A popular hack allows an attacker to get into your bank and social media accounts, read your email and take over your phone number. This attack is something that can be done to you by people who know you well.
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@tigerscott2966 Год назад

People are the biggest security risk. They don't take security or privacy seriously. They love to be connected to other groups and that's their second biggest weakness.....thanks.

@reggiep75 Год назад

I suffer with hypervigilance connected to PTSD, which is mentally draining, but in a number of situations mentioned in this video, it works perfectly well for me that I ALWAYS question, double check things and meticulously check URLs I guess there are pros and cons to EVERYTHING. 😐... 😂

@itsme7570 Год назад

You're not the only one my friend

@terrydaktyllus1320 Год назад

You've simply used a different path than many of us to the destination of "good security practice". What's important is that you are there now, not so much how you got there. Kudos to you.

@lyminlime Год назад

Same

@m3sca1 Год назад

have you tried the wagging eyes trick to down attenuate the feelings associated with scenarios that most heighten your experience.... it apparently works well somehow. with your head up scan your field of view left and right just with your eyes so... i dont remember why it was suppose to work but it was apparently helping ptsd sufferers.

@itsme7570 Год назад

@@m3sca1 never heard of this but I always did something similar. I'd hold my head up and slowly shake my head like I'm saying no

@KYurk Год назад

Attacking people is psychopathic. There is nothing admirable about being a thief. Its Gross that so many people actually think being immoral is clever. I remember when the world was full of people with integrity.

@SamWvidsRawesome Год назад

When was the world full or people with integrity, in no stage of my life can I remember a time and even reading back through history I haven't ever come across a time with a world full of people with integrity, there has always been scammers and people with nefarious intent always has been always will I think you have been hoodwinked in your thoughts thinking you know If a person has integrity, people lie and hoodwink so you know,

@eegernades Год назад

World was never filled with people of integrity. You've been blind your whole life it seems.

@KYurk Год назад

@@eegernades Well, people at least were ashamed of being a thief before, if nothing else. I knew many people with integrity-good people, now it is as rare as finding a diamond on the beach.

@eegernades Год назад

@@KYurk you're a fool then. Many people from way back were not ashamed to be thieves. What generation do you think started the term conman,? Nobody born after 1980 that's who. Ask folks in the 1900s-1930s. Bandits were a thing from way back. Many people praised the story of robinhood at its creation. If you seriously believe good people are a diamond in the rut, you clearly have not been going out much or interacted with many people.

@hamradiowithkevin Год назад

Rob, thank you for making a stressful topic into something that feels more manageable after hearing your solutions.

@Rwalt61 5 месяцев назад

I think if an insider is caught they should see a very long prison sentence.

@jonetyson 2 месяца назад

It might be some offshore representative.

@WunderOps Год назад

Every computer (password protected device) user should watch this video, even if they are experienced, security-wise operators. Please banks and corporations, let's go! For starters, create a system for verified e-mails from known safe corporations and organizations. This system could represent verification with a lock symbol in the Inbox etc. This single step would dramatically help computer managers manage e-mail so much more effectively and securely and would give operators and their employers a leg up on e-mail fraud and hacking. Thankyou for keeping this work at the front of the internet discussion. I smile everytime I see one of your videos here on RU-vid!

@timobrien3287 Год назад

This actually happened to me one yr before Covid. During Christmas week. Although AT&T remained useless in helping me , my Wife and I were lucky enough to catch the manager that gave out my info. I’m from Michigan and the store was in Logan West Virginia. Your SIM card is simply a master key to your personal accounts. Appreciate you covering this.

@timoakley1923 Год назад

There is not a hole deep enough for someone that does this. AT&T will delay/cover to distract (protect the image). Been there, prepaid phone theft (employee).

@Portia620 5 месяцев назад

@@timoakley1923I sooo AGREE!!!!

@brothernorb8586 Год назад

I love how video representations of hackers are always someone wearing a hoodie sitting in the dark. This was very informative, what would we do without Rob..

@terrydaktyllus1320 Год назад

The ones in the hoodies and Guy Fawkes masks are just "poseur script kiddies" at best - the real hackers wouldn't be so stupid as to draw that kind of attention to themselves.

@user-tp5yb4hr4w Год назад

don't forget also wearing sunglasses in the dark lol. that reminds me of the people wearing their masks when they were driving alone in their car lol. it's like wearing a condom when your not going to have sex, it's just incase you have sex you will be ready for it lol.

@Mr.Robert1 Год назад

All you need is common sense and sometimes a pair of balls if you want to scare them away something that I enjoy doing. My sister actually got one of those fake viruses on her laptop paid $250 to have it unlocked. Very gullible it has happened to me a few times and I took care of it on my own as I know the workings of a computer.

@wayando Год назад

This is done in my country on dead people's bank accounts ... Bank employees who notice bank accounts that have been idle for years partner with carrier employees to do SIM swap and then get the money out. The assumption is that the owner of the account is dead, and no one will follow up ... Buy the problem is that it could be an account left dormant but a living person. When he comes back, then account is empty, and when they complain the bank says they withdrew the money themselves.

@peterkim9696 Год назад

Where r u from?

@9mmfederalrimmed235 5 месяцев назад

This could be Latinamerica. Bank employees in Southamerica are notoriously handing over information go outside waiting gangs who are often their family members. They just gang together and assault customers when they arrive at home. That is why I did give my Bank an nearby street as address. Over here everything regards bank is handled over smartphones and WhatsApp. No fixed landlines anymore. Most often the customer who withdrew money is catched by 2 motorcycle hijackers at his own housedoor at gunpoint. That means eighter an bank employee is involved or motorcycle hijackers now learned some observation methods. Police is here often involved in assaults as well. So the police can be involved as well. Then often banks are owned by local politicians or politicians involved. That is why I am in a bank owned by international conglomerats.

@kinokirango302 Год назад

I just came across your content and boy you are more reliable than old faithful at Yellowstone national park . Thanks for the info.

@robbraxmantech Год назад

Welcome aboard!

@davidroynewby Год назад

@@robbraxmantech I agree, and thank you for your reliability! In a past video, you talked about using a Google Voice # for only 2FA, and only using Google Voice in your browser. Do you still recommend this strategy as an alternative to having 2 SIM cards?

@smoothoperator3203 Год назад

I'd love to use your phone but I am technostupid. Appreciate your commitment to a wise alternative.

@robbraxmantech Год назад

Google voice doesn't work for Google. So it just leaves multiple methods and can get hard to manage. A second SIM is easier to deal with though it adds a monthly cost

@davidroynewby Год назад

@@robbraxmantech thanks for the recommendation to use a 2nd SIM. I have your BraxMe phone (model X2). Can the bigger slot next to the small SIM card slot be used for a 2nd SIM? I thought it was for a data storage card only.

@truenorth388 Год назад

Excellent stuff as usual - thanks again, never thought of this problem, but with most all newer phones having dual sim slot possibility this is a no brainer. All the best from Norway! o/

@billarroo1 Год назад

I never realized how many ways there are to scam us, THANKS for all your knowledge and enlightenment, you explain this very well and understandable for a novice like me. Also I have a phone blocker that blocks All phone calls except .my contacts because almost all of my incoming calls are spam or scams.

@slovakjakpica 10 месяцев назад

This is just carrier problem to not do enough to verify your identity..

@glyslay4102 Год назад

Great advice for using 2 sim cards for privacy. Never figured out this for myself. There's also extra-steps for privacy you can do: 1st use VOIP numbers for some junk-services like registration in retail bonus program. They can be hacked and your "secret banking number" will be leaked to scammers. 2nd use "anonymous" prepaid sim card to face the public. It will protect you from corrupted telecom worker since it wouldn't have your name associated with you.

@markvylonis 5 месяцев назад

You mean with a burner phone?

@fredcatcreedy980 Год назад

This is why I don't do internet banking, I prefer the old-fashioned way of walking through the front door of the bank.

@EfficientRVer Год назад

So, you don't bank online, because you don't trust yourself to not click on links that hackers send you? Online banking is safer than walking between your car and the bank, if you do all of your banking by logging in to your account directly, not following links in emails. Also, without online banking, you probably use many more checks than people who bank online. Every person you write a check to, sees your name, address, bank routing number, checking account number, and your signature. If you use your bank's online billpay features, it can be a check on the bank/service's own account which is sent to pay your bill, so they only see the first 1 or 2 of those 5 things your own personal check gives away. Think about that one for a minute.

@fredcatcreedy980 Год назад

@@EfficientRVer there's an old saying a fool and their money are soon parted. Those that promote internet banking and a cashless society, are those fools.

@BurgerKingHarkinian Год назад

@@fredcatcreedy980 i wouldn't go as far as to equate online banking with a cashless society.

@eusebiusthunked5259 Год назад

@@BurgerKingHarkinian currently 90% of USD is virtual, meaning they never even printed the paper. When every banknote ever printed in American history would not be capable of handling the monetary transfers of the last 2 years, then it's time to open your eyes and realize we are already in a cashless society. If you are pretending that the token fraction of transfers of banknotes proves otherwise, then you might as well say we have a Bitcoin society by the same logic. 2 years ago Biden gave corporations more money than has ever physically existed. Bidenflation is the unavoidable result of that, unless he can figure out how to take billions of dollars away from corporations without decimating the currency that citizens depend of for daily commerce. At this point, a Bitcoin society might almost be better.

@BurgerKingHarkinian Год назад

@@eusebiusthunked5259 That's simply not true. No need to be so hyper pessimistic. You can still go to an ATM in most places withdrawal your money and pay in cash for most things. So no, we do not yet live in a cashless society and hopefully we never will.

@m3sca1 Год назад

paypal sent me email, tells me my account is on hold wants info, email has a link, didnt click, went to paypal and yes they wanted info from the legit paypal site. they wanted photo ID, proof of address and to sign off that i am not a "politically exposed person". Screw paypal, i am not ok with giving them that. Their own phishing warnings told me they would not send me messages witg links or requests for info, so i sent theor own email to their anti phish dept.

@annabell3385 Год назад

What is a politically exposed person? The nerve.

@m3sca1 Год назад

@@annabell3385 i looked it up and there is a list that companies can check to see if people are considered some form of risk to their company. Described as a person in a position of power or political influence, or connections that would make it easy to launder money😯 I am none of these things, and i can only imagine how paypal could misuse this and also noteworthy they have snuck the $2500 fine for disinfo back into the terms.

@mistyculous9644 Год назад

you were right to guess it was a phishing attack

@m3sca1 Год назад

@@shellshell9176 it was definately paypal, not a scam cos when i logged in the message was in my paypal inbox. i wont be usimg them ever again. i hope you bam them too

@JohnDeaux Год назад

Actually an uncomfortable lot of emails the real GayPal sends out look a lot more like phishing mails than the phishing mails sent by scammers

@SirPrancelot1 Год назад

Thanks Rob. Highly informative and scary.

@williamwilliams7706 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Rob for filling us in.

@Courtney-vv4ii Год назад

Hang in there Rob I am listening and I am learning thank you keep up your good works sir

@blogvlierbloesem9997 Год назад

For 2FA I only use a small cheap phone that never leaves my home. No one knows the number accept the bank and the government websites that wants the 2FA authetication.

@WatchmanPrivacy Год назад

It's crazy how vulnerable phone numbers are. We really need to move past them and all just be using internet-based private messengers.

@iriswalzak615 Год назад

I totally agree!! There needs to be a new communication device that's dumb. Not smart. Like a pager. Messages in and out no fancy shit.

@Dwelleronthethreshold89 Год назад

That’s fucking terrifying. The internet of things, homie, that much more less sovereignty.

@jujjuj7676 Год назад

Can we request a video one day on how to get sims that are pro privacy, like the difference between international sims and domestic. What's compatible and what's not?. Great job?.keep up the good work

@jackoneil3933 Год назад

Excellent Report Rob, and much appreciated! At 2:00 min what you mention about SS7 compromises by governments may be an unlikely threat for most people. Might it not be a significant concern for many people in Government, media and private industry, as the degree to which clandestine intrusions and insiders that could or do have clandestine access to SS7 and other device or carrier services may not be fully known or disclosed? Years before any of this was publicly known there were examples such as RIM/Blackberry hacks that involved carrier exploits.

@robbraxmantech Год назад

Correct. It is a threat for those under surveillance or targeted. Like Journalists, etc. But as I said, not a threat for the average person. A government would not be stealing SIM cards. They use it to watch you

@jackoneil3933 Год назад

@@robbraxmantech Indeed Rob, which they have done. From personal experience at a large and politically active media network that was the target of what appeared to be state level attacks, exploits included some conducted through mobile carriers Such attacks when discovered, appeared to be involve China but may have been home state level actors masquerading as non-state actors who had some mobile carrier access or exploit to the mobile carrier as to provide plausible deniability if discovered. If such broad and deep attacks could be so easily implemented at a media network years ago. I would say that not only journalists, but anyone who is a government employee, Military Service member, Police officer, Business person or anyone with political, military or in media, should understand better the risks you just covered and also that mobile carriers could be knowingly or unknowingly involved in targeting individuals who could in-turn be placed at risk, along with cooperate, political or national security. I currently have friends in Politics, media and the military who share sensitive information such as business and political operations and strategies by text, email, Facebook, Zoom, Whatsapp and who use known thrid-party spyware apps believing they are secure because they use a Google or Apple device because they are "Secure". Much work still to be done in terms of public awareness of privacy and digital security

@bigbadjohn2543 Год назад

Thank you for your video. My wife's phone stopped receiving phone calls and text messages. Well I called her provider, it said the number was not in their system. Got ahold of a live agent and found that a new sim card had been ordered and sent to a new address. The tech said there was nothing to worry about. He said it happens a lot with replacement phones when you have an insurance claim. I asked if I could put a secret password on the account. They said no. We do everything the old way, and nothing on the internet.

@mistyculous9644 Год назад

That was weird. How does that business possibly ensure security without a password feature?

@bigbadjohn2543 Год назад

@@mistyculous9644 her carrier only asks for a pin number. It's only 4 numbers, typical poor choice to make life easier, makes it easy for hackers to take over your account. I was told they cannot discriminate against the caller. I might be male but have a female name. I believe this was part of it. They don't have a secret password protection in place.

@tanyamiller6275 5 месяцев назад

Thank you Rob been watching your videos for years it has taught me a lot

@ZsOtherBrother Год назад

Nice video, thank you. A small remark regarding the "link preview" on PCs (15:41): THE PREVIEW IS NOT NECESSARILY THE ACTUAL LINK'S TARGET, and therefore cannot be trusted either. Hovering the cursor over a link only shows the contents of the "href" attribute, (i.e.- the link's "target"), but the actual address that it leads to can be a different one, (by using javascript for example).

@ant_nfts Год назад

learned more in 20 minutes, than this last year learning on the web, new sub for sure, thanks

@Portia620 5 месяцев назад

Thank God someone has class!!! ❤❤ 🙏🙏. Thanks and may God bless all the good people protecting us! Eternally grateful for all I learn to keep my life private! ❤️

@capt.joeylove Год назад

I’m pretty sure the government is pissed off with me I’ve been very vocal with my disapproval

@jamesfrancis5039 8 месяцев назад

In person with ID only instruction for any sim swap at your carrier is a defense

@iteerrex8166 Год назад

Yes, don’t ever give info to callers. Go to the source where the massage is supposed to have come from.

@jeffreyhowll1392 Год назад

Does the massage come with a happy ending?

@NotKewl Год назад

@@jeffreyhowll1392 If it doesn't then i aint interested

@terrydaktyllus1320 Год назад

@@jeffreyhowll1392 It depends if you asked for "extras" and paid for them before the massage started - so I am told, anyway.

@Guitargasm Год назад

Sim plans must be cheap in the USA, there are some in my country that are fairly cheap (around $10 per month) but the fine print states after 3 to 6 months, it will end up costing more than double that amount. I am an advocate of privacy and security but very often it get far too expensive.

@terrydaktyllus1320 Год назад

Even if you de-Google, say, the one phone that you own and take all of that social media and closed source app cr*p off it, you've taken a huge step towards your own privacy and security. Wifi triangulation on an Apple or Google Android phone sends your location 24x7 to those evil corporations - analysis of that data, especially your location at night, will reveal your home address to them and that probably puts you as being one of a small number of people that are known to live at that address. That alone gets them very close to obtaining your unique identity, even if you do nothing else. De-Googling a phone kills that location tracking data on you - they can't see your movements any more. That alone severely hampers their ability to identify you. Remember what Rob says frequently - it's not the fact that you leak data but whether or not that data can be linked to a real identity.

@mistyculous9644 Год назад

Keep getting another new number after 3-6 months?

@YourMomsFavoriteCommenter Год назад

Thank you!

@larryjohnson5163 Год назад

My password manager is a little black book....

@hermosa7428 Год назад

This is exactly it! It's my sister.. an this has to be her way..she knows everything about me social security, d.o.b., emails an passwords. Now what?? Can setup new emails an new passwords but can't change who I am an I know for certain she passed my info on to the actual hacker . But what can I do?

@Phurba666666 Год назад

Great video, so much good information. Thank you

@4NowIsGood Год назад

Thank you, this has happened to me twice within 30 days. SIM jacked. I think it was an inside job as the carrier had me setup a password with them after the first time, yet 30 days later, same thing happened. 2fa my email, rest my exchange password and attempted to buy $1000 in bitcoin.

@terrydaktyllus1320 Год назад

Sorry to hear it. So do I conclude that they didn't succeed in the fraud and you didn't lose out in the end? At least that's something positive out of it.

@4NowIsGood Год назад

@@terrydaktyllus1320 only because I did not have enough money in the bank the transaction didn't go through but having compromised several of my services, I truly don't know what the else they may have done that I haven't discovered yet. My phone carrier compromise my sim and will not take responsibility they only tell me well you have your services back but that doesn't help me for any damages of the fact that they gave them "the key to my house"

@terrydaktyllus1320 Год назад

@@4NowIsGood I can just wish you good luck and hope you get it resolved quickly - at least your story may be a warning to others that this stuff really does happen in the real world.

@ArtOfHealth Год назад

I will see you in 2 hours😃. Thanks for the education!!

@abisaiamatalo2769 Год назад

Thanks alot for this information.

@virginiabarber8057 Год назад

Love this genius.. wish as a senior you would help me set up secured phone with SIM cards.

@JohnS-il1dr Год назад

He sells phones set up with security.

@mistyculous9644 Год назад

Please join us on Brax.me. There are quite a few of us there who know Rob's solutions and can walk you though setting yourself up. A SIM is provided by your own carrier that works in your location - that's possible to be many different choices. Best to ask your neighbors about which SIM carrier company that's best to use.

@vancecummings1851 Год назад

Ty Mr Braxman.

@NotMolly-jf2rh 4 месяца назад

Bless you, good soul.

@anderjilly 5 месяцев назад

I need the Dummies version and spelled out instructions. Should I create a new email account and change all current banking & financial logins to the new email & get a new phone with new number and also change to that phone number for all financial accounts?

@cryptophrenik6500 Год назад

Great video with alot of useful information. I have a question however...aren't some vendors that actually utilize 2FA actually guilty of selling user data on the dark-web as well? And if so, is there anyway to protect against this scenario?

@robbraxmantech Год назад

Yes many videos on that. Twitter did it recently

@cryptophrenik6500 Год назад

@@robbraxmantech yikes! well that certainly is disconcerting to say the least! :/

@jillw892 Год назад

You're so freaking smart that's why I follow you ✌️

@robbraxmantech Год назад

Very kind of you!

@mistyculous9644 Год назад

@@KlodFather how awesome that you have a bunch of bright minds to support each other!! Hey, you could also have a private blog or chat on Brax.me to stay in touch and include other friends who don't live in Pittsburg

@NameName-rk6ov Год назад

Stingrays exist... And finally, thanks for making a video on sim vulnerability. Sim jacking is real.

@clayc9221 Год назад

thanks, very insightful 👍

@poopsex05 Год назад

Resolution... go back to landline & use a typewriter

@shamaniworld528 Год назад

Best and fastest explanation of actual swim swap attack. Allot of BS out there with 5 min videos or over 1 hour videos getting folks lost in the sauce.

@tigerscott2966 Год назад

I don't have those problems. I use Linux Mint. I don't do any social networking. I don't use online banking on any mobile device either.

@LarryRoberts-zv9rd 5 месяцев назад

THAT'S WHAT S HAPPENING with us several years now 😢

@moyafon7138 Год назад

got my T-Mobile SIM swapped a few months ago. The account had PIN enabled, and I'm not the primary account holder. Thankfully I caught it about two hours later. But to this day T-Mobile refuses to tell me how it happened, what phone numbers were in contact with the thieves while they controlled my phone number or who/what orgs they tried contact

@coreybabcock2023 Год назад

Can't trust the kind of people who work in the T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile and Verizon stores using their personal phones on the job I've seen right in front of me as I was signing up for service the metro by T-Mobile in store rep take a picture of the computer screen after I signed up for service and I said WTF you doing and they played it off like nothing happened it's always the Spanish ones doing it too

@fearless6947 Год назад

I saw this happen as well. What is happening?

@coreybabcock2023 Год назад

@@fearless6947 trying to hack us

@fearless6947 Год назад

@@coreybabcock2023 i think so too

@bartsimpson5928 Год назад

Awesome man Keep it👍🏼

@shanejoseph7 Год назад

I think I stumbled upon the carrier services)app in the play store and since I deleted and downgraded the app. That problem seemed to go away also I call my provider and told them which by saying something shines a light on nefarious activities. Don't be afraid to talk to these corporations with Authority. Your only in charge if you know it and stand in it.

@robbraxmantech Год назад

Carrier app actually has no function

@Alucard_FahrenheitTepes Год назад

The best thing is to not click emails, or anything, instead call the company directly. And that's all you need.

@antheadelmotte9473 5 месяцев назад

Question: If you continually changes the second number in phone, used for 2 step auth, does that mean you have to go change it all over on sites an media?

@Jag-ws5ue Год назад

Thank you for some great advice in detail. Can I ask does enabling a Sim lock pin on a phone help in any way, thanks

@robbraxmantech Год назад

It will if you can remember it.

@lizacash5287 Год назад

It's currently happening to me. Thank you.

@fearless6947 Год назад

everything ok?

@johny_bravo9970 Год назад

How do we report these attacks and can something be done about it

@krayz3d214 Месяц назад

I bought a separate cheap tablet that I use as a ledger. It only has my bank apps, a ledger, calculator to do math. And i keep it disconnected from wifi until I use it. Idk if this helps Rob. Can you elaborate?

@johnlegend1360 Год назад

Ron B the best! Love this channel.

@robbraxmantech Год назад

Thank you!

@NumberNine_9 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for the information. Using a second phone number for authentication implies that a company would have to support different phone numbers for authentication vs contact phone number. I'll have to look into this on some of the sites I would use this on. Question, a commenter on another video said to get an unlocked phone to avoid the swapping. How could that avoid swapping? It seems it would be easier without the middleman (the carrier). you use unlocked phones and practice second phone for 2FA so it seems to support my concern and invalidate what that person said.

@grumpyou1138 Год назад

I recorded a Walmart employee setting up ,or sim swapping as you put it, right at the electronics counter when I was buying the phone. The refused to sell me certain phones so I started recording. After leaving the store I took some pics of the custom ROM and boot loader. I even took the phone to a t-mobile store later and recorded a rep who stated "no that is not the software that should be on that phone from the factory". The last "clue" 😋 was the receipt someone had stuffed in the bottom of the box from a few days prior to my purchase that had the single line item "special order - Samsung XXXXX

@rodee1671 Год назад

Bless you.

@jodybillings3841 Год назад

Maybe it is different in the U.S. but in Canada a number port which is what we call it when your number is moved to a new carrier requires confirmation and has security in place. If same carrier then that is just a sim swap. The swap with same carrier is easier to possible hack but porting requires account number or phone imei and most send a code to the phone in a text message asking to confirm swap from original sim card. So original sim in a phone is required normally it's just asking you to reply yes. So in less someone physically has your phone or at least your original sim in an other phone they are not going to be able to port in most cases. Maybe they could use social hacking which is just talking staff into overriding on their end but this is not likely.

@KlodFather Год назад

dual sim phones of foreign origin that have been purged are necessary for security. Rooting and bloatware purges are also necessary. One of these phones is a good authenticator for your accounts with NO SOCIAL MEDIA on them. They should remain secret hidden and usually off unless you need them. Using foreign or international sims which are not easily searched are good ways to do your authentication considering they still receive text messages. Keep this simple phone separate from your other devices and no google account. No data. No backups.

@jerryfacts9749 Год назад

With my phone service provider when I call them I must supply a verbal password, and also the billing account number. If not supplied the necessary info they will not do any changes or moving the SIM. I rarely give out my mobile number. I give out another number that is forwarded to the mobile phone. Very few people know my mobile phone number. I never open any attachments or follow any links with emails that I cannot personally first verify the person who sent the message. I am very careful with web sites I visit.

@truhunk1 5 месяцев назад

So, if we use two sim cards, do we need to pay for a second phone account ?

@BuckNaked2k 6 месяцев назад

To make use of the second SIM solution, do I have to pay for a second phone number?

@davematthewes7446 Год назад

My carrier requires that I go to one of their authorized locations and to bring ID or something that confirms who you are, they will text you to confirm that it is you who changed sim card( though the text will go to the new sim,/phone)

@savire.ergheiz Год назад

Wew where I'm living you must come in person though and bring valid identifications to request a sim card replacement along with police report if its missing. If its broken we must bring along the original sim card 😁 How can its so easy like that to acquire replacement?

@logothaironsides2942 Год назад

Golly they can get to us in so many ways. I never click on links in emails either. This holiday there have been a glut of 'postal' notification emails in the vein of parcel/package on its way...payment needed to release it from customs.. ETC this must be a goldmine for the scammers at Christmas because who knows what might have been sent as a gift from overseas...amd in the UK we do have to pay for release of some objects through customs. Luckily the email senders real address pops up on my computer if pointed at and shows either a string of nonsense or a gmail address or similar..

@ClickClack_Bam Год назад

A good documentary on yt to watch is called "The honors student who stole $7.5 million". It's about a hacker team who stole Bitcoin with MILLIONS through sim swap & got CAUGHT.

@jmr Год назад

With very few exceptions every company I deal with gets it's own email account that I use exclusively for them. I can also use it to track data breaches or sale of data.

@elabuchanan8828 Год назад

I would like to know how much a brax phone costs and how to puchase it?

@bcaominh Год назад

My mobile service provider leaked my phone number and SIM card serial number. Does this increase the risk of SIM swapping? Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you!

@koreyb 5 месяцев назад

I don't know if you are still answering questions on this video, but I was wondering what your opinion was of Google's Passkey for 2FA?

@Slayerszn Год назад

My google account and Amazon account got hacked and they put call forwarding on my phone so when I call any customer service the hackers call center always answers my calls and pretend to be my bank and ask questions they already know and have on my account

@noemiedgsanjose6000 Год назад

I open a link I thought it's from a friend, I put my phone number. Now I cannot use my fb messenger normally anymore. Should I change my #?

@capt.joeylove Год назад

I post things and I get no written response, but I hear echos, echos in peoples posts, or echos from those around me, never comments or likes…

@michaelpaul5682 Год назад

Thank you

@okaro6595 Год назад

Fortunately in Finland that does not work with banks. You need your customer ID, you pin code, a single use code and an SMS verification. If you have the app then you can use it to read a QR code instead. If you forget your codes, you must physically go to the bank with an ID (driver's license is not accepted) Though SIM swapping has been use here at least once. The full details have not been reveled but it has to be part of some combined attack involving things like fake Internet banks where the SIM swamping broke the last barrier.

@Traci_S_Aaron 5 месяцев назад

Question how secure would Google voice be for second number for like pin verifications

@NoahSpurrier Год назад

I would like you to make a shorter, simpler version of this video intended for older people (my parents!), so I could have them watch the video to educate them about this stuff.

@mobilepowerone Год назад

Easy solution, don’t use regular phone carriers and stop buying smartphones (shhh…next level ghost training from yours truly, amir)

@AH-zw5xd Год назад

Does Google require the use of Google Authenticator? I was able to scan with another TOTP app and use that instead.

@robbraxmantech Год назад

For a subgroup (like RU-vid creators), Google requires that all 2FA be done with a Google App involved, including for TOTP. This is discussed in a prior 2FA video. This rule is not imposed on all yet but I've been under this rule for a year. I'm required to have a "Googled phone". I have it. It probably has been turned on once in 1 year.

@AH-zw5xd Год назад

@@robbraxmantechMakes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

@terrydaktyllus1320 Год назад

@@robbraxmantech And that's the main reason I have not started my own new channel yet, because I am not "re-Googling" a phone just for Google's snooping benefit. With that said, I have an old channel with a couple of videos on it that I've done nothing with for a year or two - I should see if I can upload to that without 2FA because maybe I can use that. Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware that they hadn't imposed this on all creators yet.

@h.n.945 Год назад

Hello Sir, thank you for another informative video! I have problems with some criminal people which are able to know my any new phone number by using a kind of software/app on their phones and then tracking my locations, listen to ny calls, reading my sms messages etc..... Those criminal peoples blackmiling me! I have changed my numbers too many times but no help that way! Do you have any advice or solution about this issue?!

@Ax.DaEdge Год назад

Change the ENTIRE Phone. Turn off Location, Bluetooth, Nearby Sharing.....

@fearless6947 Год назад

@@Ax.DaEdge agree, phones are cheap nowadays

@YaudahCapek-fg3oi Месяц назад

hi, I am one of the SIM SWAP victims. if the card is inserted into someone else's cellphone, it will take 5 minutes. Will the cellphone be hit too? please answer my question

@MoneyHustleee 14 дней назад

After I was SIM swapped, I moved to Cloaked Wireless. Haven't worried about it since.

@johnnylunchbox6066 7 месяцев назад

i have a question about my recent sim swap. How was this possible? and what info do they have on me? makes no sense. i got a text from my official carrier number 611 telling me a security code. i didnt request it so i figured someone tried to log into my phone account online (u need the number and a 4 digit pin). i went to log in and changed the pin immediately. i got an email 5 minutes later saying my phone number was changed to another sim, and service dropped. how did they get through that 2 factor at the beginning and use the security text before my sim was swapped? how could they log in without seeing that text? and still make changes without my new pin? i never gave out my first pin to anyone ever, and changed the pin before they swapped it, and they still managed to swap it. how is it possible for that to happen? luckily nothing else was compromised as you need authenticator apps to get in. even if someone knew my details how could they get both pins? the phone carrier asks for account pin when u call on the phone.

@balloney2175 Год назад

Thanx, Rob... yo da man!

@ashkeeoh Месяц назад

scary! Phone services should strictly verify access!

@charleshines8523 Год назад

What they should do is have you come to the store with ID and possibly ask you to bring other things with you. In fact it would be wonderful if there was a law that makes it so that you must go to a branch office of the carrier to do it and not just ask a few questions over the phone. There should be a draconian penalty to the carrier if they fail to do this and if accounts get compromised as a result they would have to pay to fix ALL damage it caused on top of paying the penalties.

@charleshines8523 Год назад

@@ricketts223 I don't care about inconvenience of that sort so much. There is a need to prevent this as much as possible. Anything account related other than adding minutes should be done in person with ID and *NO EXCEPTIONS* . I don't care about the distance one bit!!

@heatherhallock5088 Год назад

What happens when you can still use your phone number but you are removed from your network?

@Andrew-vd2ko Год назад

This is why I have passwords on most of my accounts and I also have a not correct DOB which in NZ DOB is used for ID to check if you are the right person etc... Always keep your self safe and make it harder for other to pretend who you are. My home address is missing the letter of the block of where I live so people MIGHT find the address but still not know where I am living. Also my address has jump from 900 to 904, so I often use 902 which by council is a real council number. Look for ways to protect yourself and make it impossible to be found without going OFF GRID.

@mistyculous9644 Год назад

probably you should delete this comment to protect yourself

@Andrew-vd2ko Год назад

@@mistyculous9644 you have no idea how careful I am and how I have many names on line and no one knows who I really am...

@mistyculous9644 Год назад

@@Andrew-vd2ko I'm glad to read that you protect yourself

@fearless6947 Год назад

@@mistyculous9644 vpn

@glendekoker3682 Год назад

Is the flipper zero any good?

@Jackofall1289 Год назад

I get knocked offline and reconnected immediately, and this happens quite often.. so I’m guessing my sim had been hacked-what should I do to fix this?

@Jackofall1289 Год назад

In the tech world I’d be considered“special needs” so keep that in mind I don’t understand half the things you speak of..

@truckn 7 месяцев назад

*What is a recommended password manager?*

@davidrobinson7112 Год назад

I look forward to your programs. I unfortunately do hold the information long and must repeat the video until I get all the information. I wish you would add text to your videos. This would improve my understanding an retententIion. Thank you so very much.

@NumberNine_9 5 месяцев назад

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