SIM card scamsters net thousands

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http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/default/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&ArticleID=1518-1786_2196328

Johannesburg - Scores of cellphone store employees have been arrested countrywide, after they apparently helped to steal clients' cellphone numbers so that money could be stolen electronically from their bank accounts.

Two Vodacom clients who contacted Fin24's sister publication Beeld lost about R118 000 after unauthorised SIM card switches.

The police confirmed the arrests of the cellphone employees.
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This is suppose to be impossible. Even if you somehow manage to do a sim replacement, and now have "my" sim card, You still need my account number, PIN and PASSWORD. How did these Criminals get all those additional details?

If they got it by email as stated in the article, then I say it is the Person's own fault! I mean,that R100 000 that was stolen from a business account - Surely the business people should be even More aware of these fake emails?!

Common! You have to be an Idiot to fall for those things these days (with all those warnings about scams when you log into Internet banking, media reports etc etc).

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Exactly.

Again, in this day and age, if you fall for those kind of scams, you deserve to be ripped off.

People are warned CONTINUOSLY about them yet they still fall for it. IDIOTS.
 
lion_fish said:
Exactly.
Again, in this day and age, if you fall for those kind of scams, you deserve to be ripped off.
People are warned CONTINUOUSLY about them yet they still fall for it. IDIOTS.
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Exactly! Same with those 419 scams. To fall for it, you must seriously WANT to fall for it.

I think idiots is too light a term to use for These people. We need to find/invent a stronger word.
 
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