One of my relatives suffered three SIM swap attacks over about six months. I asked our carrier after the first two times what we could do to prevent it from occurring again. The answer each time boiled down to "nothing." After the third time, my relative got a new phone number.
I'd love to be able to opt in to having to provide a photo id at a physical location in order to complete the SIM swap.
Or maybe the carrier can try to call or text the number for some sort of confirmation process. In our case, we never even got a warning that the swap was going to occur. We found out after my relative's email account was compromised.
This issue alone is enough to make me want to switch carriers, but AFAIK, all of them do not provide robust protection measures for this issue. I've considered Google Fi, but it might have poor coverage where some of my relatives are.
I'd love to be able to opt in to having to provide a photo id at a physical location in order to complete the SIM swap.
Or maybe the carrier can try to call or text the number for some sort of confirmation process. In our case, we never even got a warning that the swap was going to occur. We found out after my relative's email account was compromised.
This issue alone is enough to make me want to switch carriers, but AFAIK, all of them do not provide robust protection measures for this issue. I've considered Google Fi, but it might have poor coverage where some of my relatives are.