All cell phone users should check which app you have authorized to use your SMS function! Avoid interception of TAC or OTP for money transfers!
Recently, the most popular news on the Internet is the news of e-wallet deposit theft, many victims complained that they did not receive TAC or OTP verification of cell phone SMS, but the deposit was transferred to other accounts.
Generally, the victim did not receive the transfer verification TAC or OTP, but the other party was able to steal the deposit, it is TAC or OTP has been intercepted. Police recently pointed out that the fraudulent group will use cell phone software (APP) to intercept the user’s cell phone messages.
To find out which app you have authorized for your phone’s SMS function, you can go to your phone’s settings function. Then go to the Applications (APP) function, check your phone’s permissions, and find the SMS function to see which mobile apps are authorized to read your SMS.
Some phones are placed under the “Security” feature, so you can go to “Security” and check the permissions feature. The settings are different for each phone, but you can be sure that every Android phone now has the ability to set phone permissions.
You should also be careful when installing mobile applications, do not arbitrarily authorize unnecessary permissions to the application. For example a software for retouching, you only need to authorize this software to read and write to the phone’s storage. If you find that the software requires permissions for SMS, recording, call logs, etc., you should pay special attention.
You should also be careful when setting the permissions of the software, so as not to “accidentally” hurt other necessary software.
Maybank has been promoting Secure2u as a replacement for SMS TAC for many years, in order to reduce the risk of SMS TAC being intercepted by other users.
