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by bennysaurus 2291 days ago
This is an advertisement. "How to avoid SIM swapping? Get your provider to use a different authentication method (like this one!)".

In reality there is no great way to avoid it for services that have SMS as a fall back measure. Some phone companies allow a lock on transferring your SIM, requiring you to physically enter one of their stores in order to unlock, but that's about it.