Losing a phone with a SIM card should never be taken lightly
if you have registered the SIM with your personal details. Many culprits who
engage in phone theft find it more rewarding if they find a SIM registered by
another user to perpetrate their criminal activities.
Imagine missing out on a follow up to the second phase for an
interview simply because you lost a phone. At all cost, it is always advisable to block
and retrieve your SIM within 2hrs after losing it. Delay in doing this could be
very dangerous and regrettable. Below are top reasons why you should block your
SIM immediately after losing it.
- Your Identity May Be Used For Crime
Not blocking your sim early enough might
make you a victim of circumstance in this regard.
2. False ‘Save Our Soul’ Messages May Be Sent
To Your Contact
Out of concern, many friends and
families are prone to acting to our distress call through text messages. These criminals are well gifted in ways they
form their text messages that picking up the phone to call back will be the
least on targeted victim’s mind. Many a times, the victim is most likely going
to act accordingly and immediately in line with the text messages. By the time
the targeted victim realizes the false call to action, hard earned cash would
have been parted with.
The culprits might even go to the extreme by
sending SOS on behalf of other contacts on your SIM after going through your
text messages and fully aware of the family chain as well as friends’ chain. In
order to save yourself or loved ones from these mishaps, ensure to block your
sim immediately once you are sure that your sim or phone has been stolen or
misplaced.
3. No Privacy For Your Banking and Investment
Transactions
I know of a lady who misplaced her
phone. Instead of retrieving or blocking the old line, she just went to buy a
new SIM (with new number). Unfortunately, a guy found the phone but never had
any contact to connect with the lady. Instead of the guy to take the phone to
the police, he decided to keep using the phone. From 2011 up to the moment of
writing this article, alerts of all the financial transactions that the lady
has been making on her GTB and FCMB accounts go to the guy’s phone. The lady
lives her normal credit and debit activities not knowing someone sees
it elsewhere and this might continue for a very long time.
The victim might even be more
unfortunate if this happens to fall in the hands of more vulnerable culprits
who are simply looking out to wreak havoc.
4. Your Spouse Is Often The First Target
When you lose your phone to someone with an
ulterior motive, the first contact he looks for on your SIM/Phone is people who
are very close to you in order to launch attack. Once he identifies a spouse,
husband, wife, honey, sugar pie, etc , saved on your phone, he either sends out
a perfect message or gives a distress call in order to aggravate fears as this prompts
the victim into making immediate action.
A good way to prevent this from happening
to you is to avoid saving your spouse’s contact with a conspicuous name on your
phone/sim.
5. Vital Communication May Be Lost
Follow ups to some of your business
meetings, job interviews, previous conversation or registrations may be sent to
your number. You will lose out on vital information that may help you in life
if you have failed to block and retrieve your line immediately. Imagine missing
a message for a second phase of interview simply because you have failed to
block and retrieve a previous line.
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