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Canadian Progressive Bitcoiner | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I guess not having a phone number makes it less useful to sim swap :P
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516add19 | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Exactly the reason!
https://globalnews.ca/news/10376032/toronto-couple-sim-swap-scam/
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Canadian Progressive Bitcoiner | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I mean,  it shooullllddd be rather trivial to add extra protection with these phone companies so this isn't such an easy thing to do, but that would be asking for a lot out of these telcom companies.