Two Vodacom subscribers who were the victims of online banking fraud later found the sim swap had taken place while they were on international flights and thus unable to receive SMS notifications from their banks. While on a flight from the US to Canada in April, John Gosling of Mowbray, Cape Town, was unaware that someone had applied for a sim swap in his name. Shortly thereafter R28,000 was transferred out of his account. The bank later managed to recover about half of this money. Gosling had contacted Vodacom's call centre from the airport to request that the roaming service be activated just before his departure from South Africa. "Another creepy aspect is access from my cellphone to both my partner's number and my home phone number had been blocked, obviously to avoid the fraudulent sim swap being stopped." Irene Rheeder had her cellphone on flight mode while she was flying from Cape Town to Seoul in 2015. Barely an hour into the flight, at a Vodacom shop in Sunnyside Pretoria,...
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