A Palm Beach resident may be one of more than 50 people in the United States who were victims of a scam based in Westlake, ...

The scammers' reach could extend across Florida and throughout the United States, according to new court records.

A Florida woman was arrested for a SIM-swap scam affecting over 50 people, including a senior who lost $200,000.

Oren David Sela, 36, stole mail, hijacked phone numbers through SIM swapping, and used victims’ identities to drain bank accounts, stealing over $1.8 million. Here is how the scheme worked and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Experts have raised the alarm about SIM swapping fraud after the number of recorded scams surged tenfold in a year. There was a 1,055 per cent increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in ...

The number of sim-swap frauds in the UK has increased by more than 1,000%, as criminals try to exploit the increasing reliance on businesses using two-factor authentication to protect their ...

This is what it's like to encounter a SIM swap or phone porting scam and find yourself unnervingly disconnected in your hour of need. SIM swap and phone porting scams have been around for several ...

The cyberattack that has targeted Marks & Spencer's (M&S) is the latest in a growing wave of cases involving something called sim-swap fraud. While the full technical details remain under ...