He received a text from his provider Optus, which read that the telco was processing his request to move his phone number to a new SIM-card. "I called Optus, they wanted me to identify myself on ...

He said the first attack came after a scammer contacted Optus impersonating him. They then illegally moved his phone number to a new SIM card. Once they had control of his phone number ...

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