SIM swap fraud: What you should know
SIM swap fraud: What you should know
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Recently, a Mumbai businessman has been defrauded by thugs for Rs 29.52 lakh. Nagda, a 62-year-old teenager from Goregaon in Mumbai, was subjected to scam because of his mobile number linked to his bank account. The scammers first blocked his SIM to withdraw money from his accounts and then took control of the phone and completed the transaction easily. In technical language, it is called a SIM swap. These kinds of events are often heard these days. Today, we're telling you a few important things that you'll be able to keep yourself from such frauds to a great extent after knowing what you're doing.

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Withdrawing money from a bank account by making a missed call is a bit awkward, but there are scams taking place in India. These are called SIM swap frauds. SIM swap directly means using duplicate SIM instead of your existing SIM card. Hackers and cybercriminals use duplicate SIMs to flatten people.

For your information, each SIM card has a SIM number of 20 points. It remains delivered behind the SIM card. In fraud cases, hackers try or hack you with the same 20-digit unique number. Never disclose a 20-digit unique SIM number to anyone. Criminals already have their victim's unique SIM number. Criminals usually initiate a SIM swap process at night so that no one can detect them.

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