Recently, the most popular news on the Internet is the news of bank deposits being stolen, many victims complained that they did not receive TAC or OTP cell phone verification SMS, but their deposits were transferred to other accounts.
Generally, the victim did not receive the TAC or OTP for transfer verification, but the other party was able to steal the deposit, which is the TAC or OTP has been intercepted. The police recently pointed out that fraudulent groups will use cell phone software (APP) to intercept the user’s cell phone messages.
To know which APP you have authorized for your phone’s SMS function, you can go to your phone’s settings function. Then go to the application (APP) function, check the phone’s permissions, find the cell phone messaging function, and check which cell phone application has the right to read your cell phone messages.
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.
Domestic banks are already promoting the function of replacing SMS TAC with Secure2u or APPAuthorize, which is to reduce the risk of SMS TAC being intercepted by other users.
