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Today not only I ended up giving away my GPS information to a stranger. I almost gave away my payment information too.
So I got a SIM during the lockdown period from a Vi store no less. I asked to provide me unused number. They didn't had any idea about it. I urgently needed the SIM. So I took it. It turned out that this was a used number of some stranger. Today I logged into Domino's app. Add items. Guess what I have found? It's registered under someone else. With all his details. Fortunately, he made couple of IRCTC orders. So no location details of him was found. Now imagine if the guy had logged in future using password instead of OTP. He not only could have accessed to my location. But also to my saved wallets.
This is a small instance. I have even been harrassed for money on a different recycled. Some guy owed money. Person disconnected the sim. I got harrassed because I had gotten the recycled sim. On same number someone had eloped some girl. I faced similar abuses from the relatives. This is getting out of hand.
TRAI should use their heads to get telecom industry out of it's flaws and misery. Recycled sim is a backward concept.
So I got a SIM during the lockdown period from a Vi store no less. I asked to provide me unused number. They didn't had any idea about it. I urgently needed the SIM. So I took it. It turned out that this was a used number of some stranger. Today I logged into Domino's app. Add items. Guess what I have found? It's registered under someone else. With all his details. Fortunately, he made couple of IRCTC orders. So no location details of him was found. Now imagine if the guy had logged in future using password instead of OTP. He not only could have accessed to my location. But also to my saved wallets.
This is a small instance. I have even been harrassed for money on a different recycled. Some guy owed money. Person disconnected the sim. I got harrassed because I had gotten the recycled sim. On same number someone had eloped some girl. I faced similar abuses from the relatives. This is getting out of hand.
TRAI should use their heads to get telecom industry out of it's flaws and misery. Recycled sim is a backward concept.