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T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs: Report


T-Mobile employees from around the country are reportedly receiving text messages offering them cash in exchange for swapping SIMs. SIM swapping is when cybercriminals trick a cellular service provider into switching a victim's service to a SIM card that they control, essentially hijacking the victi...

T-Mobile employees from around the country are reportedly receiving text messages offering them cash in exchange for swapping SIMs. From the Mobile Report: The texts offer the employee $300 per SIM swap, and asks the worker to contact them on telegram. It's also possible the bad actor has live/current access to this data, though we consider that less likely due to the fact that some impacted people are former employees who have not worked at the company in months.

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