{"id":972049,"date":"2025-11-05T12:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972049"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:43:47","slug":"theyve-hijacked-your-number-how-sim-swap-scams-sneak-in-and-drain-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/05\/theyve-hijacked-your-number-how-sim-swap-scams-sneak-in-and-drain-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019ve hijacked your number: How SIM-swap scams sneak in and drain your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re sipping your morning coffee when your phone suddenly loses signal. No calls, no messages, nothing. You restart it, but the problem persists. Minutes later, a banking alert appears on your email, money has left your account. The culprit? A scammer who\u2019s just stolen your mobile number.<\/p>\n<p>This chilling form of cybercrime, known as SIM-swap fraud, is spreading fast. It gives criminals access to your phone number, letting them intercept calls, texts and those all-important one-time passwords that guard your online accounts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re sipping your morning coffee when your phone suddenly loses signal. No calls, no messages, nothing. You restart it, but the problem persists. Minutes later, a banking alert appears on your email, money has left your account. The culprit? A scammer who\u2019s just stolen your mobile number. This chilling form of cybercrime, known as SIM-swap fraud, is spreading fast. It gives criminals access to your phone number, letting them intercept calls, texts and those all-important one-time passwords that guard your online accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}