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SIM card swap scam hits GTA couple for more than $140K worth of Bitcoin: "It's a nightmare"

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Wayne Stork and his wife Diana had not heard of the SIM swap scam until they became victims. The GTA couple did nothing wrong but they lost about $140,000 anyway.

“It’s a nightmare,” Wayne told Global News in a television interview, with his wife Diana at his side.

The Storks are longtime customers of Freedom Mobile. Last September, when the couple were at home, Wayne’s phone suddenly stopped working. From that point, Wayne had no use of the phone, but someone else had access to the personal information attached to it.

Over the next 24 hours, scammers had gained access to Wayne’s stock trading account and other accounts, including a cryptocurrency one that contained the proceeds from an inheritance. In one of these accounts, he says he had roughly $140,000 in Bitcoin, and that money is gone for good.

Global's Sean O'Shea has the details.

For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10376032/toronto-couple-sim-swap-scam/

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