Source: Microsoft
By Kendra Williams
Microsoft warns you to be wary of strangers who ask you to borrow your phone. Scammers will often approach you in a public place and use urgency or distress to pressure you into lending them your phone. For instance, they may tell you they lost their phone and ask you to borrow yours to make a call for help. While borrowing your phone they may move out of sight under the pretense of making a call. Their goal is to gain temporary control over your phone and to commit fraud.
Once they have your phone, they can use your apps to make quick money transfers, access personal information and maybe replace your sim card with theirs.
To protect yourself, always lock your phone with a strong password or other method of unlocking it. And be cautious with strangers. Offer to make the call or send a text for them instead.
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