T-Mobile is warning its customers about an industry level hijacking problem. T-Mobile has begun dispatching a warning text message to customers in the United States. All customers are being sent the alert, but in waves; it would stress the network to send a message to all customers at the same time. What is the scam? Most users today have phone numbers associated with everything, from social media accounts to email addresses, bank accounts and so on. They are consistently used as an authentication measure and fallback if you forget your password, and help to "verify" you are who you say you are. Because of this, phone numbers have become a huge target for scammers, and they aren't being lazy about it. The criminal basically contacts the phone company (T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T etc) and impersonates whoever they are attempting to hijack. If successful, they request a new SIM card with another phone provider and activate it with the phone number of the user they targeted. This proc...
