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Noun
This prevents scammers from transferring your number without your permission, a key defense against SIM swapping.
7.—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2025 Users could even install a foreign SIM card into their phone to try to maintain the app.—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 The group is best known for using sophisticated social engineering tactics like phishing, SIM swapping and impersonation to bypass multi-factor authentication security processes.—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025 An indictment filed last year by federal prosecutors alleged that a single SIM swap scheme netted $400 million in cryptocurrency.—ArsTechnica, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for sim
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