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Why your phone number is a skeleton key

A short read

Before you start

This is general information, not professional security advice. It explains how a phone number can be misused, and calm steps that help. Nothing here says your own accounts are in danger right now. Read it as a map, not an alarm.

Sources

  • Federal Trade Commission (FTC) — SIM Swap Scams: How to Protect Yourself
  • FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) — 2024 Annual Report
  • FBI IC3 — SIM Swap PSA (PSA220208)
  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — SIM-Swap and Port-Out Fraud rules, Nov 2023
  • Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — Mobile Communications and Phishing-Resistant MFA guidance
  • Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) — number-porting verification