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by surprisetalk 1216 days ago
I got "SIM swapped" on a T-Mobile number even though my account had 2FA protection on it.

A T-Mobile customer service in another country rep literally gave my number to a hacker because they asked for it.

I suspect that many of these numbers are SIM swapped.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam