It is just common sense to immediately block a missing Sim.

Call the network provider immediately from another line... They will request basic info you used in registering it to confirm ownership, then deactivate it instantly.

This also goes for bank accounts... You simply call the customer care (most banks operate theirs 24-7), and block all account transactions till you come to the bank in person.

Know this already, but a lot of pple gat no idea. Informative

A week ago when I posted "how my access bank account was wiped" when I lost my phone some I too know people attacked me, saying I concorted the story....
When I got to the bank to find out how they were able to do that, I was told my pin was changed using my date of birth...the days are evil and criminals advancing in their evil techniques.

Eyekayj:
This is bad...


I need a job..
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Industrial Chemistry.

First a school first they need chemistry teachers from them private lessons I did it AMD am earning v well.

How do you open this kinds of sensitive information for the General public so that more criminally minded people can learn all these hacks? Well, I hope the banks can see these as well so that they can plug all these loopholes. This is terrible!

Na dat NO TRACE ACCOUNT shock me pass.


Nigerian banks are bullsh!ts, why would they allow that?

Only access, the bank is so porous....... anyways I'm moving my money from there to my GTB.
I have heard so much bad news about this access bank.

This happened to me was tired of explaining to people that I didn't take any loan..I got pissed when only few people believed me..plus they wiped my account clean..guyman like me fa

WEMA bank is the chief of No Trace Account.

They are the only bank in this country that operates No Trace Account. That bank should be banned!

seems like access bank is the easiest bank to hack

Mom007:
How do you open this kinds of sensitive information for the General public so that more criminally minded people can learn all these hacks? Well, I hope the banks can see these as well so that they can plug all these loopholes. This is terrible!

It's a two way thing. People are not aware that they can loose their money by allowing people have access to their sims.


With the light situation ,I have seen people be careless and go charge their phones in another person's house, some even in a public center.

24SEVEN:



Use samsung or Apple smartphones and they cant hack it.

also use sim lock.

i have good millions in my accounts. imagine losing my phone.

Samsung is the easiest to hack or backpass using Grp and all details will still be left in it. iPhones are better or if u can get a blackberry

Teaching more hooligans and thieves on how to carry out their activities against the poor masses. Useless media that doesn't know when to publish sensitive materials and when to with hold them and when to advise poor masses on how to protect/secure their SIM card. The same nonsense western world are doing in Ukraine, using media to expose every move of Zelenskyy so that Russia will deal with him.. Nonsense..

Lol

nedekid:

Put a sim password on the sim you use to receive alert. You need your puk to do that.
If your phone is stolen, you sim will require your password before being used.

Oh, I don’t have the PUK but I could look for it. Thanks a lot.

Noted

The question is this: Why would our banks enable such fraud by not blocking these codes from revealing such information

This looks easy to stop by making sure such short codes are unable to reveal details that can be used to wire out money from peoples account

Sim lock will avoid you the stress. Once your phone restart, it ask for sim pin
Once your sim hit another phone, it asks for sim pin.
They don't use your phone to empty your acct, they simply remove your sim to another phone and work on it, while they flash your phone and sell for a cheaper price at ikeja under bridge......

Google how to add pin to your sim card and you will be safe.
T 4 tenks

24SEVEN:



Use samsung or Apple smartphones and they cant hack it.

also use sim lock.

i have good millions in my accounts. imagine losing my phone.

Exactly....I use Samsung and also have sim puk lock on my sim.


People should atleast put sim puk lock on their sim card. ( although only when u still have the som pack)

24SEVEN:



Use samsung or Apple smartphones and they cant hack it.

also use sim lock.

i have good millions in my accounts. imagine losing my phone.

Boss I hail, abeg I need financial help.

How will he be able to get the money after transferring it to a no trace account ? I dont understand that part. Is it that the money is gone?

my problem with the news is that it teach other to learn how to. instead of been careful with your sim. In short the news is too open. why all the details to the public.

Mrkumareze:
Wire wire can always occur, even USA haven't succeeded in stopping it ... best option is to limit certain options in your account.
Yesterday I went to bank, I saw an elderly man who's account was deducted by these criminals, he was like *u mean this 60k was transferred this morning?* the customer rep officer said yeah

But Europe almost stopped it. America likes fraud. Europe does not. If Banks in Nigeria are serious or if CBN is serious. They can reduce it to the most minimum level.

If you are using UBA, GTB, ECOBANK and STANBIC IBTC no body can get your bank details through this!

First bank is not secured with this code. They may have access to your account oooo.


The *425*100# is for recharge. I just confirmed it on my phone now.

See the picture below.

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It is finished. All these banks only know how to bring insecure products for their customers. Zero security. Or should I say compromised security products. They keep asking you not to reveal this or that pin/code even to bank staff as if it's not the staffs that created it or as if it was made in heaven by Angels and spirits

I just dialled that *425 code on my phone and the banks I use just appeared,


Pls oooo, NCC should in collabo with telcos disable that code ASAP

rolams:
If you are using UBA, GTB, ECOBANK and STANBIC IBTC no body can get your bank details through this!

First bank is not secured with this code. They may have access to your account oooo.


The *425*100# is for recharge. I just confirmed it on my phone now.

See the picture below.

Me too. It's safe to say Ecobank is one of the most secure banks in the country

rolams:
If you are using UBA, GTB, ECOBANK and STANBIC IBTC no body can get your bank details through this!

First bank is not secured with this code. They may have access to your account oooo.


The *425*100# is for recharge. I just confirmed it on my phone now.

See the picture below.

Zenith Bank and First Bank are not secure with this

Let's escalate so they do the needful

In September last year, I discovered that someone had successfully withdrew 14k from my account to buy mtn recharge cards.
But how? I recently switch to using the account after several years which unknown to me was tied with an mtn number I had lost with the phone 6 years ago. Apparently someone close to the new owner of the resold mtn number was the one perpetrating this fraud as the new owner do not understand English and only speak Hausa.

When they steal your phone, your sim is the target not the phone. When they stole my phone, I quickly pulled out all my money, they next thing they did was to borrow credit with my sim before I could block it.

rolams:
If you are using UBA, GTB, ECOBANK and STANBIC IBTC no body can get your bank details through this!

First bank is not secured with this code. They may have access to your account oooo.


The *425*100# is for recharge. I just confirmed it on my phone now.

See the picture below.

I'm so happy my main bank is Ecobank. I can't use USSD. Any transaction must be made with the app.

I've forgiven them for all the frustration for close to a year the app was down. I was using POS to transfer to FirstBank before i can be using the money. This is what I have been using since June last year till early this month