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SIM swapping fraud and how you can avoid it SIM swapping fraud is difficult to protect against but that doesn't mean you can't do anything about it. In this post, we look at how SIM swapping fraud works and how you can avoid it. SIM swapping is a prevalent type of account takeover fraud, in which an attacker takes over control of your mobile phone number. The attacker can then send and receive calls and texts, including two-factor authentication PINs and one-time passwords. For an attack with such a valuable payload (your mobile phone number), it requires very little technical...