Fraudulent SIM swap requests — impersonating legitimate subscribers to redirect their MSISDN to a new SIM — enable account takeover and financial fraud.
Fraudulent SIM swap requests — impersonating legitimate subscribers to redirect their MSISDN to a new SIM — enable account takeover and financial fraud. Detection relies on manual verification processes that fraudsters circumvent.
ML models score each SIM swap request against subscriber history, behavioural patterns and request characteristics. High-risk requests automatically routed for enhanced verification or blocked pending confirmation.
Score every SIM swap and port-out request.
Use device, location, channel and recent account changes.
Ask for stronger checks on risky requests.
Offer a SIM-swap check to banks and partners.
This page describes generic industry practice and public standards. It is not based on, and does not describe, any particular vendor's product or operator's systems.