Bashkortostan police warn about dangerous SIM cards
Scammers can use them.
The head of the Cybercrime Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Police Colonel Ramil Tukhbatullin, warned about dangerous SIM cards in an interview with a Bashinform journalist, which will be published on November 10.
"People previously used a SIM card, then, for example, bought another one, but didn't unlink it from their personal accounts. It was linked to a banking app. They stopped using the card, and after a few months, the operator transferred it to a so-called 'sedimentation zone.' Fraudsters gain access to such SIM cards through backdoors, restore them, and easily access apps," warned a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
He recommended that when changing a SIM card, people unlink their phone number as much as possible from all their personal accounts—at banks, marketplaces, and microfinance organizations.
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