Draft NPRM Looks at Tackling Mobile Phone Fraud
The FCC acting chairwoman's office circulated an NPRM on tackling SIM swapping and port-out fraud, proposing various actions aimed at preventing takeovers of consumers' cellphone accounts and follow-on attacks using stolen data, the agency told us Monday. The NPRM was…
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circulated Friday. SIM swapping happens when a wireless carrier is deceived into transferring a victim's service from the victim's mobile phone to another phone in a scammer's possession, the agency said. Port-out fraud is when the scammer, posing as the victim, opens an account with a new carrier and then arranges for the victim's number to be transferred -- or "ported out" -- to the new carrier account, the FCC said.