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by walrus01 1649 days ago
> or at least substituting a voip service that can't be social engineered over the phone

unfortunately it's also very easy for somebody to submit falsified port documentation to port away your voip number to their own carrier.

In many cases even easier than doing a SIM swap, since the oldschool way to do a port is to literally print out one page of a bill with your name on it (Anybody could edit this by inspect element on a legit bill of their own and swap your name), print it, sign it in ink, scan it, and send it to the carrier requesting the port-in