SIM swap fraud suspect caught: MTN

[R13...]

So how do you authorise the simswap if you have no phone?
with your buddies phone???

Why don't they just make it so you can only request a swap in person? During office with identification and RICA docs. It's obvious some of the scam are executed outside normal office hours.

 

[Allin]

Got a call today from MTN to "confirm my contract details". Sure, no problem, as I don't have any contraxt with MTN, or any other SP.

"Yappitty yap, yappitty yap, please confirm your ID sir".

"Sure, it is 6323148978089"

"Thank you sir, please confirm you date of birth"

"Sure, 14 23 63"

"Thank you so much sir, please confirm the details of your bank through which you pay your monthly bills?"

And so it went on. I gave the fool enough numbers to keep her busy for weeks to come.

Let her figure my date of birth then we'll have some fun!

 

[JerryMungo]

Hehehe... thats what id do. Must remember that.

 

[zaidmo]

Went to get a sim swap from a normal sim to nano sim the other day. They refused to accept my drivers license of proof. Wanted green bar coded ID. Are fake drivers licenses the main cause for the sim swaps?

You should have just cut your sim to nano size on your own, or at many cell repair shops who have sim card cutters and may charge R10

 

[MR.C]

Went to get a sim swap from a normal sim to nano sim the other day. They refused to accept my drivers license of proof. Wanted green bar coded ID. Are fake drivers licenses the main cause for the sim swaps?

Drivers license card don't have first or middle names.

 

[Shake&Bake]

Tip of the hat to MTN and SAPS.

Hopefully this guy will be able to lead them to more and we'll also get some answers.

 

[j4ck455]

Similar to Vodacom, MTN will also be implementing a system to authorise SIM swap by SMS, Zondo said. Unlike Vodacom’s system, however, MTN will wait until a subscriber has confirmed the SMS request to swap SIMs before proceeding.

“This delays the SIM Swap until the legitimate customer has confirmed the request via SMS,” Zondo said.

I pity the fool that is an MTN customer and is legitimately trying to replace a lost or stolen SIM card.

As for the fools at MTN, one suspect arrested and MTN thinks the problem will go away quietly

 

[MissyT]

Or maybe it's easy to check whether a potential target is rich...

So person works at MTN, figures out that someone is rich, does illegal SIM swap, and with that alone manages to get access to bank account? I doubt it.

 

[drukkie]

Why don't they just make it so you can only request a swap in person? During office with identification and RICA docs. It's obvious some of the scam are executed outside normal office hours.

Cost...and trust me that quickly rises when you change it from phone to a physical person...

 

[Waste]

“MTN is not certain as to how this information is compromised, but understands that it can be done through phishing or when a customer’s personal documents such as ID documents are compromised,”

I'm into IT, and know what "phishing" is, but to the people that hardly ever use a PC, this word sounds like something that will never happen to them.

They should start saying "people that send SPAM email that look like a legit FNB or ABSA or Standard Bank email, but links to a fake bank website that looks and functions as the real bank website, and then give them the opportunity to log in and capture their details. The only real way to see the difference is if you carefully inspect the url, specifically it should begin with https:// of the link they are are requested to click in the email.".

Because I have been receiving these emails so many times a day, and because I am with Gmail/Google Aps they get kicked to SPAM, but for any person on a normal email server, these emails will get through and cause people to think they are legit.

The media is the only source of information that can really point out what phishing is to help people not to fall for this. Using the word "phishing" to shorten their articles is not going to help anyone avoid this.

In the early days this was called "con-artists" maybe we should start calling it "con-emails" so that people know they are being fooled right in front of their eyes.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Got a call today from MTN to "confirm my contract details". Sure, no problem, as I don't have any contraxt with MTN, or any other SP.

"Yappitty yap, yappitty yap, please confirm your ID sir".

"Sure, it is 6323148978089"

"Thank you sir, please confirm you date of birth"

"Sure, 14 23 63"

"Thank you so much sir, please confirm the details of your bank through which you pay your monthly bills?"

And so it went on. I gave the fool enough numbers to keep her busy for weeks to come.

Let her figure my date of birth then we'll have some fun!

Beautiful!

 

[Mr.Jax]

I'm into IT, and know what "phishing" is, but to the people that hardly ever use a PC, this word sounds like something that will never happen to them.

They should start saying "people that send SPAM email that look like a legit FNB or ABSA or Standard Bank email, but links to a fake bank website that looks and functions as the real bank website, and then give them the opportunity to log in and capture their details. The only real way to see the difference is if you carefully inspect the url, <snip>

So true that!