Two-Factor Authentication: Customers are encouraged to set up two-factor authentication inside the free My Verizon app ( Android or iOS).“Verizon requires customers to complete enhanced authentication steps to perform a SIM card change or device change request,” a spokesperson told Team Clark. When it comes to SIM swapping, Verizon said it has put several security enhancements in place. I reached out to them to find out the latest procedures and protocols they have put in place to counteract SIM swap scams. You may be wondering what popular wireless carriers are doing about SIM swapping. What Cell Phone Carriers Are Doing To Prevent SIM Card Swapping
That means they have access to any codes sent through an email or text message.
How? While two-factor authentication is typically a decent form of protection, the scammer now has access to your phone number and email. Once a scammer successfully takes over your phone, they can access your bank account, social media accounts, email account and more. Then they ask the provider to activate a new SIM card connected to your phone number on a new phone - a phone they own.” SIM swapping, or a SIM swap scam, happens when a crook is able to take control of your personal information stored on your SIM card by using it on another phone.Īccording to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a successful SIM swap can occur if a scammer impersonates you and contacts your phone service provider with a bogus story.Īccording to the FTC’s website, “They may call your cell phone service provider and say your phone was lost or damaged.
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While that statistic isn’t surprising, it does show how many of us are susceptible to a dangerous scam: SIM swapping. It seems as though the Local Boys In The Photograph might be about to fade into the background.According to the Pew Research Center, the majority (97%) of Americans own a cell phone. Released in the month they received a Q Award for penning a Classic Song, Pull The Pin ridicules this very bestowment whilst acting as a reminder of the sheerness of the slope they've been sliding down ever since. Bewilderedly stumbling from one persona to the other (rarely convincing as either) interrupts the structure of the album whilst suggesting Jones doesn't know which hat he should be donning at any given time. It's a trait that again highlights the sometimes bipolar nature of his song-smithery, especially when juxtaposed with Daisy Lane, a slower track about a fatal happy-slapping attack, and one of the only successes on the album. Perhaps it's due to his diminutive physical stature, or maybe his advancing years (is 33 too young for a midlife crisis?), but on Pull The Pin, Jones too often feels the need to challenge the manhood of others ("be a man – if you can" on Pass The Buck) or revel in his own (check Bank Holiday Monday for a lesson in downright awful male bravado: "Gobbin' speed like a monkey in a fuckin' zoo / get ya girl in the toilet after flirting all day"). Instead of punctuating the rolling guitar of Soldiers…, it attempts to roll alongside them in painful fashion. In keeping with Pull The Pin, it sounds dated and antiquated, in the worst possible way. One thing is certain though: it sounds old, its gravelly texture grown gradually less appealing over the years. It's difficult to comment on whether Jones' voice has worsened, or even changed. The bland and underwhelming opening track Soldiers Make Good Targets acts as a decent gauge for things to come, the above adjectives resonating throughout this record even more so than any earlier models. So it should come as no surprise that instead of using new album Pull The Pin to announce a return to form or even (God forbid) a new direction in his songwriting, Jones is still chasing the ghost of Billy Davey's daughter, and this time, even he sounds confused. Bar the odd exception, it has so far eluded him. But a decade on from their excellent debut LP, Word Gets Around, the question is still looming large: what exactly are The Stereophonics? Perceptive commentators on the mundane trivialities of everyday life, or lager louts hell-bent on drunken debauchery? Their stellar first album struck a balance between the two good enough to have Kelly Jones dedicate the next ten years of his life attempting to replicate it. Their commercial success has gone some way to postponing the interrogation.
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