‘I panicked': Woman is warning others after SIM swap scam
NBC6 South Florida | The scam begins when someone fraudulently takes over your cell phone account. Once they have control of your phone data, it takes scammers only minutes to drain your bank accounts.
“And it could be as easy as calling up and pretending to be you and knowing certain things about you and saying that you got a new phone,” explains Erin West, Operation Shamrock.