Someone used my mobile phone number to apply for Ping An Pratt & Whitney Verification Code. I got it. Could it be a scam?

Maybe it's a scam. This is the latest scam. According to the police in Yuexiu, Guangzhou, scammers can obtain the short message content of users' mobile phones in real time through "GSM hijacking+SMS sniffing technology", and then use the technical loopholes and defects of well-known banks, websites and mobile payment apps to achieve crimes such as information theft, fund theft and online fraud.

Guangzhou police have cracked many such cases in succession. It is reported that most criminal gangs choose to commit crimes in the early hours of the morning without direct contact with the victims, so most victims cannot detect the theft of funds in time.

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The principle of this attack ('GSM hijacking+SMS sniffing technology') is that GSM SMS is not encrypted, and criminals can monitor the content of SMS through some eavesdropping means. Huang Lin, a senior researcher at 360 Radio Security Research Institute, explained the specific steps of criminals in an interview with Nanfang Daily reporter.

The attacker only heard short messages, but it was useless. SMS verification code needs to cooperate with the verification process of website or app to play a role. Therefore, the attacker must know the target's mobile phone number, and may also need other information, such as ID number and bank account number. In fact, this information can be obtained by' crashing into the library' or hacking into the accounts of some applications.

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