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O2 allowing scam texts to reach customers

mikeliuk

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Below report is quite worrying as I'm being moved from Virgin Mobile which is good about this to O2 which apparently is the worst.

Simon Miller of Stop Scams UK, the leading cross-industry anti-fraud group says that in 99 cases out of 100, anyone who says they have had a message from a scammer is with O2.

 
Really not surprised. o2 security is horrendous and they lie about it when confronted.

For months I was telling them that they where "leaking" customers numbers via HTTP header information to every website you visited on the mobile device, even while using the device as a hotspot. I was told that o2 would never do that and it would be against company policy. I got fed up telling them and ported my number from them.

Wasn't until an o2 customer (Lewis Peckover) created a simple "tool" to echo the http header back to the web page that they finally fixed the problem. Meanwhile web masters grepped logs for mobile numbers to sell on to scammers and fraudsters.
 
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