True Patriot Love - October 04, 2025


Two Factor Authentication Stop SIM Swap Scams Dead in Their Tracks


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

221.57907

Word count

319

Sentence count

9

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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It s not like not having fire insurance because you don t think you ll ever need it, then your house burns down and you go, "I wish I had fire insurance." That s exactly what happens when your phone gets hacked.

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00:00:00.000 Then when they get breached, they come for help,
00:00:02.020 and to help resolve their situation could be thousands of dollars.
00:00:06.580 And, you know, they think they're just going to Best Buy for $50.
00:00:10.160 It's not going near that.
00:00:11.520 Terry, is it not like not having fire insurance
00:00:14.200 because you don't think you'll ever need it,
00:00:15.560 then your house burns down and go, I wish I had fire insurance.
00:00:18.260 That's exactly it.
00:00:19.200 People are losing their shirts.
00:00:20.440 I mean, you're seeing the stories, right?
00:00:21.580 People losing $300,000 in a scam.
00:00:24.320 You know, their retirement is gone.
00:00:26.980 and uh yeah like like it was one story we had her name is Allison she was on one of my live shows 0.98
00:00:32.920 she has what's called two-step verification turned on all of her accounts this is this is an added
00:00:38.600 protection that most people need to have on there which you type in your username and password and
00:00:43.020 then a two a six-digit code will appear on your phone either through the app or through a text
00:00:47.520 message to enter that information that means that we can validate you know the username and password
00:00:52.880 and we can actually verify you because you have the device so she had this on all of her accounts
00:00:56.700 except for one her hotmail and what happened was they got into her hotmail address they they were
00:01:02.400 able to see all the security questions and the answers and they managed to log into her telus
00:01:07.180 account and transfer her line from telus the bell and when they did that all the codes went to the
00:01:12.340 bad guy's phone they logged into her bank account and drained it they bought stuff on amazon and
00:01:16.640 ebay uh and they did this on a friday night so she had to wait till next business day to get to
00:01:22.300 with the banks so it's it's crazy the scams out there now