{"id":17105,"date":"2025-01-06T08:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/o2-was-tricked-into-transferring-my-number-to-fraudsters-could-i-have-it-back\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:37:58","slug":"o2-was-tricked-into-transferring-my-number-to-fraudsters-could-i-have-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/o2-was-tricked-into-transferring-my-number-to-fraudsters-could-i-have-it-back\/","title":{"rendered":"O2 was tricked into transferring my number to fraudsters. Could I have it back?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Sim-swap\u2019 fraud has affected three readers \u2013 and dealing with their mobile phone company hasn\u2019t been easy<\/p>\n

What <\/strong>some O2 customers <\/strong>may have wanted for Christmas <\/strong>was a phone number, since long-cherished <\/strong>ones <\/strong>have had a habit of going astray. Whether they got lucky is another matter, as O2\u2019s customer services can be as hard to pin down as Lord\u00a0Lucan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

JD<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s number was taken from her when fraudsters, pretending be her, tricked O2 into transferring it to a sim they\u2019d acquired from another provider.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2018Sim-swap\u2019 fraud has affected three readers \u2013 and dealing with their mobile phone company hasn\u2019t been easy
\nWhat some O2 customers may have wanted for Christmas was a phone number, since long-cherished ones have had a habit of going astray. Whether they got lucky is another matter, as O2\u2019s customer services can be as hard to pin down as Lord\u00a0Lucan.
\nJD\u2019s number was taken from her when fraudsters, pretending be her, tricked O2 into transferring it to a sim they\u2019d acquired from another provider. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Sim-swap\u2019 fraud has affected three readers \u2013 and dealing with their mobile phone company hasn\u2019t been easy What some O2 customers may have wanted for Christmas was a phone number, since long-cherished ones have had a habit of going astray. Whether they got lucky is another matter, as O2\u2019s customer services can be as hard …<\/p>\n

O2 was tricked into transferring my number to fraudsters. Could I have it back?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}