Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,uk.telecom.mobile Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=22=27Scammers_stole_=C2=A340k_after_EDF_gave_out_m?= =?UTF-8?Q?y_number=22?= Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 19:28:52 +0000 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net GWRseScfeMoAdzfUOT+JCA2Fu4ehkygJp/1xdEJwZoxtP69UkT Cancel-Lock: sha1:pRXUhYmR+ypkusMwIx3UvBA9J7w= sha256:4PJOtLUYjHQdvUQ4GXCfCTzxMi+q9ftHJOPbj5Fn14Y= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:146925 uk.telecom.mobile:45849 Newyana2 wrote: >   I think the problem is a balance between security and convenience. If you've been careless enough to lose or damage your phone, you deserve a bit of hurt :-) > If you lose your cellphone, you don't want to have to go somewhere > with a certified letter and drivers license to confirm you are who > you say you are. I'm envisaging something like you (or the criminals) phone the service provider, they say "fine we'll send a letter with a code to the address we have on file, call us back tomorrow when you get it", they could even include a new SIM while they're at it. The criminal is therefore cut out of the loop (if they try to organise post redirection to intercept the letter, the post office will send notification of the redirection in the post before they actually start the redirection, so the criminals can't short circuit it that way.