Florida Arrests Mobile SIM Swappers
Florida arrested and charged two men for alleged money laundering and grand theft involving mobile SIM card swapping, Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) said Monday. In an investigation, the AG’s cyber fraud enforcement unit found that Thomas Simmons solicited and…
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paid a cellphone store employee, Raymond Ortiz, to swap a customer’s SIM card so that Simmons could access the phone remotely and steal $280,000 from the customer’s bank account while the victim was on a flight, the AG office said. Moody said, “the only thing these [SIM] swap criminals will be trading is their freedom for time behind bars.”