Wonder if that’s what happened to you @mindriot?
Generally here if you have lost your phone/sim, they will send you out a replacement in the post.
I’m not sure what their procedures are for porting a number to a new provider tho… I vaguely remember there was a loophole where ‘new’ companies were stealing numbers but they quickly came up with a system to prevent that… so maybe it’s more of a US issue right now?
Not really, that comment was somewhat adjacent to this particular issue and more speaking to the overall state of security on the phone network. That specific example was because a lot of scam callers use numbers similar to the target so that they look local or partly familiar, though occasionally they mess that up and use the actual targets number though that is more about spoofing rather taking over the SIM. The point was just that you can’t trust anything.
