Samy Bensaci, an 18-year-old living in Montreal, Canada, has been charged in connection with the theft of over $50 million worth of cryptocurrency in a SIM-swapping scam. A SIM swap attack (also sometimes called a Port Out scam) is one where fraudsters manage to trick the customer support staff of cellphone operators into giving them control of someone else’s phone number.

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