Oh, the times we are living in. The good old days of number transfer scams are somewhat exhausted, it seems, as carriers are more "woke" to the problem now, and have put safeguards against unauthorized number porting.Even if you do all the port-out scam precautions that T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T or Sprint now require, like extra port validation pins or passwords, you can get bamboozled out of a sought-after account access by another method - SIM swapping.
When you lose or your damage your SIM card, or you got a phone that uses a different card ...