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  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Not sure about all the risks but one that comes to mind is SIM Swapping. If criminals can get enough information from your social media accounts, they may then get access to your phone account. That will let them switch your number to another sim card that they control. With that, they can intercept any calls or messages sent to verify your identity and gain access to any accounts using your phone for 2FA.

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      22 hours ago

      Sim swapping is terrifying, I’ve heard some crazy stories of theft on Darknet Diaries.

      But also me with zero social media: aw hell yeah

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      Criminals already know this and only the stupid ones get caught these days, it’s mostly so they get your data for the brokers, information brokers make a crap ton of money selling our data and we don’t get anything out of it.