Increasing cases of sim swap scam, scammers make such victims, keep yourself safe

Nowadays cyber criminals are making people their victims in different ways. One of these methods is sim swap scam. In this, scammers deception your mobile number and get it active on the SIM with you. In this way, all the important calls and SMS coming on your number go to them. This can cause great loss to you. Let us know how this scam works and how it can be avoided.

This is how sim swap scam works

For this scam, the scammers contact the telecom company and get the number of another person active on the SIM with you by deception. For this, he first contact the company by telling the identity of another user and demands to activate a new SIM card. After this, by answering some questions, they get the number of other users activated on the fake SIM card.

How do scammers answer the questions correctly?

Scammers take help of fishing email, malware or social media profiles etc. to gather information of a user. Many times, scammers send a form by becoming an officer of a company or bank and get the user filled all the details on it. Apart from this, they also steal the information of the user through malware. Along with this, information on social media is also useful for them. In all these ways, they gather information of the user and swap SIM by answering the questions of customer care.

How to avoid such scams?

• Beware of fishing email and suspicious links. Do not open the email, link or message from any unknown person.
• Do not share sensitive information on any email, phone call or link etc.
• Always use strong passwords for the protection of your account and keep changing it from time to time.
• If you are not able to make calls or SMS from your phone, then contact your telecom company immediately.
• If you feel that you have fallen prey to a scam, then immediately inform the concerned agencies.

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