SIM swap fraud, measures that drove zero damage in Mozambique

Mobile payments are very popular in Africa to compensate for the inconvenience of geographical convenience

<In April 2019, at the security event "Security Analyst Summit 2019" hosted by Kaspersky Labs in Singapore, Mr. Andre Tenreiro of CERT Mozambique (Mozambique CERT) explained the mobile payment situation in Africa as follows. .

Andre Tenreiro, CERT Mozambique

What is the "SIM swap fraud" technique that hijacks mobile phone numbers and steals money? scheme to take over a phone number by

The SNS account is also hijacked!

Pictures of a group of criminals spreading fake messages. The person on the upper left is an accomplice who worked for a mobile carrier, and the T-shirt has the logo of that company. It's an easy-to-understand insider...

"Security analysts felt powerless against this crime," said Fabio Assolini of Kaspersky Labs.

What is Mozambique's countermeasure for almost zero SIM swap fraud?

Mechanism for checking mobile phone numbers suspected of being hijacked by linking online banking and mobile carrier systems with an API

What Mobile Carriers and Users Should Do to Counter SIM Swap Fraud

Mobile Carriers: Various Online Services That Strengthen Identity Verification Processes During Transactions: SMS Authentication Immediately Abolished but users who implement other authentication methods such as voice authentication: Use methods other than SMS authentication such as passcode generators as a means of two-factor authentication

What each party can do to prevent SIM swap fraud