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2HD: Phone porting and scams

Why are scammers interested in your phone number, and what can you do to prevent these types of attacks? Leigh Stark joins 2HD to talk that and more.

It seems scams will never go away, and scammers are getting very crafty, working out how to transfer your phone number out from underneath you, even while you’re actually using your phone. Why are they doing this, and how can you prevent this sort of thing from going on?

Pickr’s editor Leigh Stark joins 2HD’s Brent Bultitude to talk what’s going on, while diving into some of the biggest tech stories of the week, including the world of AI text-to-video and upcoming batteries that let you simply plug them into a USB port to recharge them.

Listen to the segment at 2HD to find out this and a little bit more.

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