Expert Explains How To Prevent Cell Phone SIM Card Swapping

There should be a class action lawsuit against the cell phone carriers who don’t verify ID before moving your phone number to a different device.

The mobile companies should verify with original owners before issuing new sim

this was pretty ineffectual information about preventing sim-jacking

This is an issue with the phone carrier, they're responsible for keeping your data private. They need to ask for a photo ID before any transactions occur. Phone carriers should be held accountable and help the victims of these crimes.

THIS IS ALSO A PERSONAL SAFETY ISSUE. THANK YOU

3:30 Don't allow Google or your phone to store your login IDs or passwords.

The expert should have mentioned setting a PIN for your SIM card. It’s not foolproof, but every little bit of defense helps.

So the carrier should be held responsible for any loss of money

@4:14 - you can make sure that you're not using text messaging as your multifactor. Good luck with that. Most financial institutions force us to give them our phone number or else you can't have an online account. They don't offer other options.

Amazing - the title is about how to prevent sim swapping. And the conclusion is that it cannot be prevented and therefore you take other measures to protect your accounts - such as multi-factor authentication - when the only multi-factor authentication that 99.99 percent of the banks provide is via your phone number (sim). Great click bait title!

The hackers are using the same people we go to to fix the problems with our phones to get our new info.

I’m now listening to everything about this.. so it’s starts with the phone service by not getting identification.

Keep your phone locked! Never do banking with your phone.

The phone carrier should be responsible for something like this. If they allow somebody to call up and just say I need a SIM card and send it to my address here and then they do so when it's not the person who owns the cell phone, then they should be sued. And I bet you any amount of money that people are going to get tired of it and they're going to start suing these cell phone companies. And they should. Because this is not right that the cell phone carriers allow someone to get a hold of their SIM card when they still have their phone and their SIM card intact. If these politicians were doing their job they would enact laws that protect consumers better than they do. I'm disgusted with our politicians overall across the world.

When punishments are lights, scammers flourish. They say that in some asian countries nobody would try to touch forgotten things because it could be accepted as stealing, and punishment for that would be an amputation of one's arm.

Cell phone companies, should be verifying the identity before doing that

That is absurd not to give out your phone number. Not the guy but for the phone companies. That's one of the purposes of having a phone is to give out your number so people can contact you. Phone companies need to act quick and stay ahead of these scammers to keep customers safe.

The carriers are 1000% RESPONSIBLE for this. NOT THE BANKS. I. Swear I would sue AT&T, T-Mobile et all out of existence!!!!!!

The expert didn't mention to call your cellular provider and ask for enhanced security. Require a PIN known only to you for any account changes, including a port pin. While there's no guarantee nothing will happen, as employees at the cellular company could taken by a scammer, every little bit helps. Also, the expert said SIM stands for subject identity module. It's actually subscriber identity module. Anyway, stealing one's phone number has to deal with fooling someone that they are you, and you need your phone number moved (you lost your phone, and so on). The SIM or eSIM is just the underlying technology.

This is why you don't use your phone number for any type authentication. Everything goes to my email, which needs a password to access. It really isn't difficult people. Stop using your phone for everything.