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How an SMS phishing attack works.
This victim gave up the code for their own bank account.
@fifonetworks Also, there is the old "call the customer's cell phone provider, claim to be them, assign their account to a burner phone, and get the target's SMS messages directly."
MANY people have lost bitcoin this way as scammers take over high value target phone accounts just long enough to authenticate to their bitcoin exchange accounts and drain them.
SMS is not secure.
