A new scam is taking place in America that allows scammers to get your phone number to get past 2-Factor Authentication

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Scammers can then get access to your social media accounts, bank accounts and more

AT&T Employee “I work at AT&T and over the last couple days, I've witnessed multiple malicious port-outs, which means that a scammer has tricked your cell phone carrier into allowing them to port your number over into a device that they control, which in turn lets them do the two-factor authentication

Allowing them into your bank account, your email, your social media. A way to prevent this from happening, and this isn't just for AT&T, this is for any cell phone carrier that you have. Most of them have a port-out protection that you should turn on because this has been happening quite a bit lately. So just letting you know”

Again this could happen on any cell phone carrier you have.

I researched and found port-out protection is a free feature offered by major U.S. carriers, including T-Mobile, Metro, and others

Categories: Crime & Lawlessness

Tags: scam crime

0 +1 00BuckShot00 2 hours ago

Every video on YouTube is saying to turn this off for security . Don't know which is right