The feed-in is the reason why this fraud is possible. People have no idea of how and why this happens, even tech-savvy ones. We as ThioJoe's audience can skip to 7:45, but not the people to whom we will send the video link.
I work for one of the cell companies (not disclosing who) and it is crazy the amount of attempted port out fraud and sim swap fraud that I see attempted. Most folks don't realize just how prevalent porting fraud and sim swap fraud are, and it almost always starts with one compromised email and password. Thank you for putting this video out there, it's definitely needed!
What a surprise US companies putting profit before customer service then being forced to do the right thing by FCC but then not advertising the feature.
I got a text about it, it's right there when I log into the account. Another good solution would be having to enter your account PIN after a SIM swap on the phone once, just like when you activate a new credit/debit card which works really well for cards.
Well, it may not be in the title, but he did say in the intro he was talking about new FCC rules, which only exist in the US. I do get your point about it not being in the title, but at least you only had to watch the intro, not the whole video, to see this was only for the US.
@@wildbill4496 That's more than 30 seconds into the video, until that point it's just "they're legally required", which could make it seem like it's a common law in many countries.
@@AbdullahMRiadmaybe he doesn't realize he has an international audience. Not everyone in the US is xenophobic or specifically trying to screw you. If an English RUclips personality I watch were to upload something like this only applicable to England, I wouldn't be upset. I'm the American watching the English channel.
Of course the big companies objected to protection of their customers. ALL they care about is getting the money! As long as YOUR payment clears THEY DID THEIR JOB. That is utter nonsense however it is also how companies work.
My cell phone company is Verizon, and I've had a pin number set up with them for years, which prevents us from happening. The only way my sim can be swapped is if someone has this pin number, and I'm the only one that has it. So if your phone does not have this feature, just call your carrier and set up a pin number with them.
Thank you for this GREAT video!!!! I use ATT and I accidentally discovered this a few weeks ago while searching for solutions to prevent sim swapping. I was about give ATT a huge nice review but now I find out thanks to you and this video that the FCC required them o do it!! Of course they wouldn't have done it if not required!!!!
Thanks for your informative video! Don't recall receiving any notification from my provider. All the provider bashing aside, this is simply a No Brainier! I had this new feature enabled before the video was even finished. IMO, any inconvenience of having to disable it to manage your account pales in comparison to the horrors thousands of people have experienced with SIM swapping and Port Out attacks.
If you break your phone you have to do a SIM swap. Now those silly eSIM just made this problem bigger, before you could simply swap the physical sim card into a new phone, but eSIM's you have to swap online.
How do you know for sure, "rarely switch carriers or change numbers?" You know that some users want to test different carriers, different devices, AND also keep the same mobile number?
Depends... if a carrier no longer suits my needs, it's nice to dump their SIM in a garbage can after giving it a snip. In that case, it's one more obstacle to port my stuff out.
I think it is great that they are doing this. If you do lose service even after this rule takes effect just immediately go to one of your phone carrier's stores and check with them that your phone number was not stolen. Don't stop anywhere on the way unless your vehicle is about to run out of fuel. Just get there immediately. Also go to your bank and tell them to watch for suspicious transactions and maybe even to freeze your accounts. You can even get new ones once your number is back to normal just in case someone is trying to take money from your existing account. Whatever you do you must work quickly.
Thank you so much for this info. I was able to lock down my phone numbers quickly. I've been wanting this for a long time, and I wasn't aware that the carriers had added this feature. Kudos to Joe for informing us, you got a new subscriber!
Wow, thanks I have been wanting to do this with AT&T for a very long time. It happened to my son thankfully he didn’t have a lot going on there and it was easy to fix. But I am definitely glad to see your video on this. I have definitely enabled the feature already. Since you explained, it was only on the phone app and ended up being pretty easy to find and for AT&T. Thanks again.
This video popped up on my feed. Thank you for showing everyone how to protect themselves from hackers. It took me less than a minute to enable both of those protective features on my Verizon app.
In France, scammers call the phone holder, not a customer representative, to have them read out the 2FA code. If this technique would happen here, scammers would just trick the customer into removing the option, then tell them they will call back after a series of internal tests (because I read the protection goes off after 15 minutes). It won't stop the fraud, yet the targeted people will change.
Hey Thio... Big fan of the channel for a long time. Just had this video come up on my notifications. Logged in immediately and enabled both features. You are the "boss man". I feel so much more comfortable now. Thanks for keeping us safe.
AT&T is, as usual, hot garbage. If it keeps failing to enable, try signing out of the application, deleting your user ID from the sign in list, closing the application entirely, and signing in again. There's a 75% chance it will work after doing that once or twice.
I had to search the AT&T app for “wireless account lock.” After I found it, it wouldn’t let me enable it. It said “You must be using a device that’s associated with the account you’re trying to lock.” I was using my iPhone. 🙄
Thank You! I was confused why it was saying my device "needed to be associated with the account". Had to sign out and back in about four times before the damn app let me enable Wireless Account Lock.
It's best to have a separate phone number for 2FA that you NEVER give out to anyone for contacting you normally, just to banks etc. that require a phone for 2FA.
FYI mint mobile has this in their app under settings. Default is to have it enabled. If you don't want the number lock you need to change that but imho I'm glad to have it.
0:35 - Also to siphon all your personal info AND your contacts info especially if they luck out or target public figures or those with access to similar highly desirable figures. Be careful out there people!
This is sort of enabled by default here. You can't swap sims or change carriers without personally being there with your id. Also, when you change sims/operators, banks disable your 2FA it's kind of tied to your sim not just your phone number. You have to personally go to each bank or their ATM with a valid card and remove the sim lock / accept the sim change. Until then you can't login to mobile apps, or do online shopping with your credit cards.
In Greece this has existed for many years and is known as Authority Password, but you need to contact customer support which will prompt you to send an email to the ISP with your password. In my opinion, this is a significant vulnerability.
Yep, I found this channel maybe a year ago. I like how it's all in his voice, just a guy making fairly polished videos (but not overly-polished) with practical information for technology.
For Verizon if you have the app click on your device select manage device scroll down should show up as Number Lock seems some phones are enabled automatically but Check to be sure
What if my phone got bricked with that "security" feature, would I still be able to change it? I thought that the phone service providers would be able to differentiate in a physical later of their transmitter an authenticate caller from the impersonator but it seems they've opened a loophole for spammers to call you using your phone number.
Lots of good info. I knew about the phone number locking with my carrier, in fact I remember when I used the accoutn app months ago, it specifically popped up something offering to turn that on. However, I was not aware they also no offered a SIM locking option.
Definitely enable this protection, but you might want to add an annual reminder that it’s on so you remember to turn it off when you get a new phone. I had forgotten that I had added this protection, and a couple months ago it caused a delay while I “troubleshoot” why I couldn’t switch my esim to a new phone 😅
I did a port lock on my Visible carrier last year. Because of your view video, I rechecked it and found that it was not locked anymore. Visible has an option for line lock, which I now toggled on.
I was just able to active both Number and Sim lock via the T-Mobile app in my phone. Thank you! (T-Mobile customer service is okay most of the time but not always the smartest)
I read that banks in Africa implemented a check before each transaction and checked with the carrier if the SIM was recently switched, and blocked the account for some days if it was.
I would prefer a 2FA method using a standalone device that doesn't connect to anything, wired or wireless. Many years ago, I used a credit-card-sized device to log into my company's internal network remotely. It had a little LCD screen that displayed a series of characters that changed every 30 seconds or so, I just entered the characters on the 2FA (called something else back then, I think) entry box. I can't bring myself to trust a phone app, or a dongle that plugs into a PC, mostly because I don't understand the details of how they work. Plus, firmware designers invariably insist on adding a method to update device firmware, which seems to me to be a huge gaping vulnerability. As long as a hardware 2FA device can be updated remotely, I doubt I can ever bring myself to trust it. But even if such a device existed (or already exists), the problem would be compatibility with all the websites that I currently use with 2FA.
Have you tried YubiKey? They are not fully supported, so you can use them on some sites but not others; however, they are nice for the sites you can use them.
You might have had an RSA SecurID SD200 card. You can always buy a cheap or second hand small (Android) phone and only run the authenticator app (i prefer Aegis), without sim card or wifi.
@@marcelfotografie6046 Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't considered that. I am currently using an older SIM-less phone to run Android Auto to get GPS navigation in a newer vehicle using an offline maps app, so I didn't have to agree to enable any of the horrid snooping stuff they are putting in the new cars these days.
It's interesting that the USA is only just getting around to doing this. In Canada, we've had text requests for ports and SIM swaps for at least a few years now. We don't have SIM locking though, but some companies offer port protection, which blocks ports of numbers even if the text request is replied to. Surprising that they didn't look to how Canada was doing it to see that it's only been successful for helping to curb SIM theft and number theft.
Another far more dangerous attack is the S7 man in the middle attack. Everyone should disable roaming on the account if they don't travel and enable only when travelling.
This won't stop people from buying access to smaller cell tower operators and tricking your phone company into thinking your phone is roaming and redirecting messages and calls...
If I had a buck for every time a friend or family member has been SIM-swapped, I'd be wealthy! I'm afraid of drive-by SIM swapping happening to me. BTW: I've switched to your sponsor for antivirus
I'm pretty sure my parents had their SIms swapped recently. My dad's phone wasn't connected to the network PROPERLY. It said it was connected but he had zero service (no bars), couldn't make or receive cals or texts, even on wifi-calling. It took many hours of US Mobile troubleshooting to finally fix it. Mom's phone worked just fine, so it wasn't a tower down issue. Then about a month later (like a week ago) mom's phone did the same thing! What the heck. Dad's phone was working just fine, so I contacted them again and I mentioned the issue about the other line prior tot his and they looked up the tech support notes and fixed it really quickly. I was thankful. Does that sound like a SIm swap happened? My parents weren't notified about their number being transferred to another carrier like when they port out. I have no idea what happened.
@@20NewJourney23 That sounds more like a Stingray-type cell signal interception rather than a SIM swap. Stingray is a device that mimicks a cell tower to facilitate a man-in-the-middle compromise of the phone
@@AltonVAnd how could something that customer service would do help getting connected again? If there's a malicious base station you just move out of its reach. But of course, what was said during calls and in SMS's while connected to the malicious base station, would be known by the hackers, and that information would stay in their possession even after leaving their base station.
@@snarkykat It seems to have happened at our house in rural NV. So, if that's the case, it is someone nearby. The people who live near me within wifi range tend to be elderly, retired, disabled people with the exception of the people of likely Mexican descent living directly behind us who bought the property last year; They don't speak English. Sooo. I have no idea what would cause the issue. But I don't seem to have the issue being on T-Mobile-based service,w hereas my parents are on AT&T-based service. I did just get T-mo SIm cards for US Mobile. If this happens again I'll swap my parents over to the Tmo SIMs thru US Mobile app/site.
Just remember, you have to turn it off before you upgrade your phone or account otherwise it will freeze the ability to use the new phone so make sure you do it before hand before getting a new phone
Thank you for the video. I had number lock on but not SIM Protection. NOTE: The MyVerizon app allows you to set number lock but PIN Protection apears to be abailable only from the web
@9:52 - Boost Mobile It's in the App under lock settings. That protects from unauthorized Port Out I've not moved my Boost eSIM to another phone, so not sure. I'd imagine one would get a text on the old device to authenticate the migration of the eSIM to the new device. That seems to be the way carriers are doing that these days.
Thanks for those info. It's funny that they say they are all about our security, yet never tell you that this is something you should be aware of. Absolutely enabled it. Might even drop our wireless provider... sick of these big corporations who leach off of customers. I know... stop yelling lol
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7:45 is where you find how to enable the feature; there’s a really long introduction to this video.
Thanks! I thought I'd have to go through the entire video again because at the end I didn't know if he said how to enable these.
@ The feed-in is interesting. It doesn’t feel like 7+ minutes.
There are labeled chapters too.
@@kevbu4 Thanks!!
The feed-in is the reason why this fraud is possible. People have no idea of how and why this happens, even tech-savvy ones. We as ThioJoe's audience can skip to 7:45, but not the people to whom we will send the video link.
I work for one of the cell companies (not disclosing who) and it is crazy the amount of attempted port out fraud and sim swap fraud that I see attempted. Most folks don't realize just how prevalent porting fraud and sim swap fraud are, and it almost always starts with one compromised email and password. Thank you for putting this video out there, it's definitely needed!
BS...they should required the person to go to the local store. Shouldn't be that easy to port number.
What a surprise US companies putting profit before customer service then being forced to do the right thing by FCC but then not advertising the feature.
I got a text about it, it's right there when I log into the account. Another good solution would be having to enter your account PIN after a SIM swap on the phone once, just like when you activate a new credit/debit card which works really well for cards.
not available outside the US, please put that in your title
I hate it when people treat US as the only country in the world
Well, it may not be in the title, but he did say in the intro he was talking about new FCC rules, which only exist in the US. I do get your point about it not being in the title, but at least you only had to watch the intro, not the whole video, to see this was only for the US.
@@wildbill4496 That's more than 30 seconds into the video, until that point it's just "they're legally required", which could make it seem like it's a common law in many countries.
@@AbdullahMRiadmaybe he doesn't realize he has an international audience. Not everyone in the US is xenophobic or specifically trying to screw you. If an English RUclips personality I watch were to upload something like this only applicable to England, I wouldn't be upset. I'm the American watching the English channel.
Hopefully it's coming for the rest of us
This is one of the most useful public service announcements you've ever done. Excellent work Joe.
Only if you're American - the FCC has no jurisdiction outside the US, so this has no impact on me, for example.
Nice to see you pop up Jim, not often do I see a wizard in the wild.
Of course the big companies objected to protection of their customers. ALL they care about is getting the money! As long as YOUR payment clears THEY DID THEIR JOB. That is utter nonsense however it is also how companies work.
I didn't know this feature was required until now. Honestly, kudos to the FCC for enforcing this-I just turned it on!
My cell phone company is Verizon, and I've had a pin number set up with them for years, which prevents us from happening. The only way my sim can be swapped is if someone has this pin number, and I'm the only one that has it. So if your phone does not have this feature, just call your carrier and set up a pin number with them.
Thank you for this GREAT video!!!! I use ATT and I accidentally discovered this a few weeks ago while searching for solutions to prevent sim swapping. I was about give ATT a huge nice review but now I find out thanks to you and this video that the FCC required them o do it!! Of course they wouldn't have done it if not required!!!!
Thanks for your informative video! Don't recall receiving any notification from my provider. All the provider bashing aside, this is simply a No Brainier! I had this new feature enabled before the video was even finished. IMO, any inconvenience of having to disable it to manage your account pales in comparison to the horrors thousands of people have experienced with SIM swapping and Port Out attacks.
People rarely switch phone carriers or change phone numbers, so this a good idea to enable this to block it from hapenning
If you break your phone you have to do a SIM swap. Now those silly eSIM just made this problem bigger, before you could simply swap the physical sim card into a new phone, but eSIM's you have to swap online.
How do you know for sure, "rarely switch carriers or change numbers?" You know that some users want to test different carriers, different devices, AND also keep the same mobile number?
Depends... if a carrier no longer suits my needs, it's nice to dump their SIM in a garbage can after giving it a snip. In that case, it's one more obstacle to port my stuff out.
Thanks! Great information.
@@ThioJoe wait how do you do that
@@ThioJoe WTH
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@@ThioJoecould you please make a tutorial, or explain how you did it. even if its not available to the public.
Good to see that there are free services to protect your cellphone number.
Thank you -this is the first time I’ve heard of this feature. My cell carrier never bothered to inform me.
I think it is great that they are doing this. If you do lose service even after this rule takes effect just immediately go to one of your phone carrier's stores and check with them that your phone number was not stolen. Don't stop anywhere on the way unless your vehicle is about to run out of fuel. Just get there immediately. Also go to your bank and tell them to watch for suspicious transactions and maybe even to freeze your accounts. You can even get new ones once your number is back to normal just in case someone is trying to take money from your existing account. Whatever you do you must work quickly.
Thanks, Joe! Logged into my AT&T account and enabled this setting!
Thank you so much for this info. I was able to lock down my phone numbers quickly. I've been wanting this for a long time, and I wasn't aware that the carriers had added this feature. Kudos to Joe for informing us, you got a new subscriber!
Wow, thanks I have been wanting to do this with AT&T for a very long time. It happened to my son thankfully he didn’t have a lot going on there and it was easy to fix. But I am definitely glad to see your video on this. I have definitely enabled the feature already. Since you explained, it was only on the phone app and ended up being pretty easy to find and for AT&T. Thanks again.
Thank you for this information, Joe. I enabled my this protection on all of my phones after I viewed your video. Great work!
My first thanks to you after years of getting such important ideas and tips from you. Belated but no less felt. Thanks, Rob
00:31 Nice, another thing keeping me up at night
This video popped up on my feed. Thank you for showing everyone how to protect themselves from hackers. It took me less than a minute to enable both of those protective features on my Verizon app.
Already enabled, thanks for letting people know!
Thank you!!! This was genuinely useful info that someone slipped right by me. Just logged in and enabled both protection features on all my lines.
Wow, I cant thank you enough for pointing out this feature. I have been searching for a way to secure my sim card. This is an easy solution.
Thanks Joe. For Straight Talk customers I found the turn on switch in my account settings in the mobile app.
In France, scammers call the phone holder, not a customer representative, to have them read out the 2FA code. If this technique would happen here, scammers would just trick the customer into removing the option, then tell them they will call back after a series of internal tests (because I read the protection goes off after 15 minutes).
It won't stop the fraud, yet the targeted people will change.
Hey Thio... Big fan of the channel for a long time. Just had this video come up on my notifications. Logged in immediately and enabled both features. You are the "boss man". I feel so much more comfortable now. Thanks for keeping us safe.
We need regulatory changes to better protect consumers in Canada! SIM and port swapping protection, and Canada-wide credit freeze! CRTC, act now!
Thank you for uploading this Brother!!!
Just implemented it with T-Mobile. Thank you so much😊
I hope you are planning on addressing the resent security hack on 8 phone carriers, and your recommended fixes.
AT&T is, as usual, hot garbage. If it keeps failing to enable, try signing out of the application, deleting your user ID from the sign in list, closing the application entirely, and signing in again. There's a 75% chance it will work after doing that once or twice.
Someone also said to make sure you have a recovery phone number on your profile and that was the trick that worked for me
I can’t even find how to do it in this app
I had to search the AT&T app for “wireless account lock.” After I found it, it wouldn’t let me enable it. It said “You must be using a device that’s associated with the account you’re trying to lock.” I was using my iPhone. 🙄
Thank You! I was confused why it was saying my device "needed to be associated with the account". Had to sign out and back in about four times before the damn app let me enable Wireless Account Lock.
I had no problems enabling this I was able to one the 1st try no issues
It's best to have a separate phone number for 2FA that you NEVER give out to anyone for contacting you normally, just to banks etc. that require a phone for 2FA.
SMS really should not be used for 2FA/MFA at all. It's ridiculous that my email and social media accounts have better security than most banks.
@@Retro6502 text codes is the least secure method of 2FA. If possible use an authenticator app
It’s best to avoid SMS OTP all together.
@@AliAvali Absolutely, but so many places require it (unless you avoid those businesses).
@@Retro6502 facts
Americans only! Yay for being in Canada I guess.
Also: don't forget to deactivate it if you want to switch companies and keep your number.
FYI mint mobile has this in their app under settings. Default is to have it enabled. If you don't want the number lock you need to change that but imho I'm glad to have it.
FYI... Number Lock was defaulted on my phone to disabled.
Thank you! I just locked my Verizon and Mint Mobile numbers. I appreciate you.
Enabled both! Thank you 😊
thanks for this well researched video. And thanks for including Mint Mobile
Thanks. Glad to hear companies are addressing this issue.
0:35 - Also to siphon all your personal info AND your contacts info especially if they luck out or target public figures or those with access to similar highly desirable figures. Be careful out there people!
This is sort of enabled by default here. You can't swap sims or change carriers without personally being there with your id. Also, when you change sims/operators, banks disable your 2FA it's kind of tied to your sim not just your phone number. You have to personally go to each bank or their ATM with a valid card and remove the sim lock / accept the sim change. Until then you can't login to mobile apps, or do online shopping with your credit cards.
Thanks for the updates. I'll stop by my phone carrier's store this week to sort it all out.
Hope this will be a thing in EU and UK too!
In Greece this has existed for many years and is known as Authority Password, but you need to contact customer support which will prompt you to send an email to the ISP with your password. In my opinion, this is a significant vulnerability.
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@Moonlight-vg7sl because I want something creative, but I don't have skills to draw it myself
UK is Europe
@aitehs true, thx, I mean EU
I enabled the feature on AT&T. Thank you for the information.
Oh exclusive to USA, im outta here
7:40 *INFO IS HERE!*
Great video. You're such a great human being.
Yep, I found this channel maybe a year ago. I like how it's all in his voice, just a guy making fairly polished videos (but not overly-polished) with practical information for technology.
For Verizon if you have the app click on your device select manage device scroll down should show up as Number Lock seems some phones are enabled automatically but Check to be sure
I for sure enabled it. Thanks for the video.
Got it Bud! Great job.I'm definitely going to enable both on t mobile. 👍
thank you algoz for leading me the wonderfully made video showing me how to lock down my cellular service even further!
Thanks for the video! I had no idea this feature was available to me and that I needed to address it.
Thank you so much for this info. I wanted to have these lock features set in place with my phone carrier, and with your information, now I do.
What if my phone got bricked with that "security" feature, would I still be able to change it? I thought that the phone service providers would be able to differentiate in a physical later of their transmitter an authenticate caller from the impersonator but it seems they've opened a loophole for spammers to call you using your phone number.
Lots of good info. I knew about the phone number locking with my carrier, in fact I remember when I used the accoutn app months ago, it specifically popped up something offering to turn that on. However, I was not aware they also no offered a SIM locking option.
As usual, excellent information. I've enabled it. Thx for this.
Which begs the question, if AT&T didnt want to implement it, how are they benefiting from allowing sim swapping to occur? Do they make money from it?
Enabled right now while watching your vid. Thanks a bunch.
Definitely enable this protection, but you might want to add an annual reminder that it’s on so you remember to turn it off when you get a new phone. I had forgotten that I had added this protection, and a couple months ago it caused a delay while I “troubleshoot” why I couldn’t switch my esim to a new phone 😅
Thank you TJ for info. to swap 'I'm ok aS I aM' thought. Security evolves as tech does, so...rock on brother.
I did a port lock on my Visible carrier last year. Because of your view video, I rechecked it and found that it was not locked anymore. Visible has an option for line lock, which I now toggled on.
Thanks very much for this info. I will be logging on to my carrier's website to do it.
I'm Canadian, and we've had these things forever! Crazy that this wasn't the case in the US.
I was just able to active both Number and Sim lock via the T-Mobile app in my phone. Thank you!
(T-Mobile customer service is okay most of the time but not always the smartest)
I read that banks in Africa implemented a check before each transaction and checked with the carrier if the SIM was recently switched, and blocked the account for some days if it was.
I have used the number port lock on Verizon, did not know sim was separate. Thanks for the information! I just turned on Sim lock.
I would prefer a 2FA method using a standalone device that doesn't connect to anything, wired or wireless. Many years ago, I used a credit-card-sized device to log into my company's internal network remotely. It had a little LCD screen that displayed a series of characters that changed every 30 seconds or so, I just entered the characters on the 2FA (called something else back then, I think) entry box. I can't bring myself to trust a phone app, or a dongle that plugs into a PC, mostly because I don't understand the details of how they work. Plus, firmware designers invariably insist on adding a method to update device firmware, which seems to me to be a huge gaping vulnerability. As long as a hardware 2FA device can be updated remotely, I doubt I can ever bring myself to trust it. But even if such a device existed (or already exists), the problem would be compatibility with all the websites that I currently use with 2FA.
Have you tried YubiKey? They are not fully supported, so you can use them on some sites but not others; however, they are nice for the sites you can use them.
You might have had an RSA SecurID SD200 card. You can always buy a cheap or second hand small (Android) phone and only run the authenticator app (i prefer Aegis), without sim card or wifi.
@@marcelfotografie6046 Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't considered that. I am currently using an older SIM-less phone to run Android Auto to get GPS navigation in a newer vehicle using an offline maps app, so I didn't have to agree to enable any of the horrid snooping stuff they are putting in the new cars these days.
It's interesting that the USA is only just getting around to doing this. In Canada, we've had text requests for ports and SIM swaps for at least a few years now. We don't have SIM locking though, but some companies offer port protection, which blocks ports of numbers even if the text request is replied to. Surprising that they didn't look to how Canada was doing it to see that it's only been successful for helping to curb SIM theft and number theft.
Thank you for this bulletin video. Much appreciated.
Reason number 347 i never answer calls except from mom/dad
but is it really Mom or Dad or is someone spoofing their number and using AI to clone their voice???? /S mostly
@@_GntlStone_stop playin with him bro 😭😭
Not always possible sadly
That's why you establish a code word
Thanks Joe. this is great.
Very helpful, right where you said it'd be on Mint. Kinda surprised the default setting was Off.
Thank you for the valuable information 👍
Good explanation, thanks, I have done the SIM, but not the PORT. Taking care of it.
Hey Thio, I hope you would make quick videos (maybe shorts) about IDM alternatives, also the difference between Windows Security and Windows Devender.
Another far more dangerous attack is the S7 man in the middle attack. Everyone should disable roaming on the account if they don't travel and enable only when travelling.
Thanks Joe. definitely will turn this on ASAP.
Visible is called Line Lock. I just toggled to turn it on. Thanks for the tip Thio!
Gl bruh 💪
mint👇
Account>Security>Number Lock>Enable
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"Problem with this USB drive"
oops should be fixed now
This won't stop people from buying access to smaller cell tower operators and tricking your phone company into thinking your phone is roaming and redirecting messages and calls...
I like videos like this - more cellphone tips are always very welcome ...
If I had a buck for every time a friend or family member has been SIM-swapped, I'd be wealthy! I'm afraid of drive-by SIM swapping happening to me. BTW: I've switched to your sponsor for antivirus
I'm pretty sure my parents had their SIms swapped recently. My dad's phone wasn't connected to the network PROPERLY. It said it was connected but he had zero service (no bars), couldn't make or receive cals or texts, even on wifi-calling. It took many hours of US Mobile troubleshooting to finally fix it. Mom's phone worked just fine, so it wasn't a tower down issue. Then about a month later (like a week ago) mom's phone did the same thing! What the heck. Dad's phone was working just fine, so I contacted them again and I mentioned the issue about the other line prior tot his and they looked up the tech support notes and fixed it really quickly. I was thankful. Does that sound like a SIm swap happened? My parents weren't notified about their number being transferred to another carrier like when they port out. I have no idea what happened.
@@20NewJourney23 That sounds more like a Stingray-type cell signal interception rather than a SIM swap. Stingray is a device that mimicks a cell tower to facilitate a man-in-the-middle compromise of the phone
@@snarkykat wouldn't that affect both phones simultaneously?
@@AltonVAnd how could something that customer service would do help getting connected again? If there's a malicious base station you just move out of its reach. But of course, what was said during calls and in SMS's while connected to the malicious base station, would be known by the hackers, and that information would stay in their possession even after leaving their base station.
@@snarkykat It seems to have happened at our house in rural NV. So, if that's the case, it is someone nearby. The people who live near me within wifi range tend to be elderly, retired, disabled people with the exception of the people of likely Mexican descent living directly behind us who bought the property last year; They don't speak English. Sooo. I have no idea what would cause the issue. But I don't seem to have the issue being on T-Mobile-based service,w hereas my parents are on AT&T-based service. I did just get T-mo SIm cards for US Mobile. If this happens again I'll swap my parents over to the Tmo SIMs thru US Mobile app/site.
Just remember, you have to turn it off before you upgrade your phone or account otherwise it will freeze the ability to use the new phone so make sure you do it before hand before getting a new phone
Just did it for our three lines. Thanks a lot!
Thank you for the video. I had number lock on but not SIM Protection.
NOTE: The MyVerizon app allows you to set number lock but PIN Protection apears to be abailable only from the web
Thank you for sharing this. I didn't even know about this until this video.
had our phone number stolen. 500 contacts. Had to call them all with a new number. I've had that number 25 years. Broke my heart.
Thank you very much for this! This was one of my most feared security risks. Too bad the law did not appear to require carriers to inform customers!
@9:52 - Boost Mobile
It's in the App under lock settings. That protects from unauthorized Port Out
I've not moved my Boost eSIM to another phone, so not sure. I'd imagine one would get a text on the old device to authenticate the migration of the eSIM to the new device. That seems to be the way carriers are doing that these days.
Thanks! I'll give it a try!😊
For Visible by Verizon you need to navigate to Account > Privacy & Security. Select manage number security.
Just locked both of our lines with Xfinity Mobile. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for those info. It's funny that they say they are all about our security, yet never tell you that this is something you should be aware of. Absolutely enabled it. Might even drop our wireless provider... sick of these big corporations who leach off of customers. I know... stop yelling lol
Enabled on Google Fi. Thank you for this!
Thanks for the video! I enabled this on my account right away.
Utilizing a Yubikey would be a huge step forward in securing phones/computers.
I did it in my verizon! Stopping scammers is a must.
Fantastic video! Thank you so much 👍