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How prepared are you against phone theft? If a thief just snatched your phone while its unlocked, and disappeared into a crowd, do you think you'll react fast enough to protect your data? (sh.itjust.works)

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Assuming the thief want both the phone and the data (because data / your identity is very valuable these days).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not a data target

Someone managed to obtained a fradulent copy of my mother's ID. We're practically just "normies". People think "I'm not important enough to be targeted" then identity theft happens.

This was not even from a stolen phone, it was probably from some data breach. But imagine the damage that can be done from a stolen phone.

So, the identity thief convinced the banks to add their phone number (probably a burner), but somehow they failed to do any money transfers. Then they did a sim swap by just walking into a store, but the other lines got notified and within an hour, my mother got a new sim and removed her name from the authorized account holders leaving only my dad's name in there.

I have no idea how they didn't manage to steal any money, I guess they didn't think their victims would react this quickly?

Edit: And also the law enforcement is fucking useless. They said they'll "investigate", but haven't heard a word back in a year. The only reason to ever file a repprt is for the police report, don't expect the perpetrators to ever get caught.