Check your SMSes so you don’t fall prey to the SIM swap scam
A customer told her service provider she had not authorised a SIM swap — but lost R187,000 anyway
01 October 2023 - 00:00
The inconvenient truth is that the processes companies have developed to spare us from hassle and inconvenience can be exploited by criminals to get their hands on our money...
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