David, There was a good article and program on CBC on Social Engineering. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/marketplace-social-engineering-sim-swap-hack... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck_r2GYLdCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc7scxvKQOo My take-away from this is that people have been robbing banks for hundreds if not thousands of years, and banks know better. Cellphones are managed by service companies. Probably, the caller is a customer. Possibly, the caller is a potential customer. Rogers lacks the blind, unreasoning paranoia access to your bank account or bitcoin. My cellphone is a telephone and a wifi access device. Try Googling your company. On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 15:37:12 -0400 David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
My company just found a fake instance of themselves, so I wonder what folks do to detect them?
I know politicians suffer impersonation a lot, but I don't know who's out there helping people and companies find and shut down the scammers.
--dave
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