#130 The Snapchat Thief

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week, a new Super Tech Support: after Lizzie's Snapchat gets hacked, things start getting really creepy. Alex investigates. Michael Bazzell's Podcast The complete Security and Privacy Podcast Steps Michael Bazzell Gave Alex to Protect Himself How to port your phone number Password Manager Google Authenticator Yubikey Michael's workbook to freeze your credit and remove yourself from public records websites Sudo Stories about Sim Swapping and OGUsers by Vice/Motherboard By Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchierai The SIM Hijackers How to Protect Yourself From SIM Swapping Hacks ‘TELL YOUR DAD TO GIVE US BITCOIN:’ How a Hacker Allegedly Stole Millions by Hijacking Phone Numbers How Criminals Recruit Telecom Employees to Help Them Hijack SIM Cards Alleged 19-Year-Old SIM Swapper Used Stolen Bitcoin to Buy Luxury Cars Cops Arrest Infamous SIM Swapper Who Allegedly Stole $14 Million in Cryptocurrency By Joseph Cox 'I Could Ruin Your Business Right Now': Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom The Organization that Lizzie Donated To Byte Back Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlet, this is Repliall. I'm Alex Goldman and I'm PJ vote.
0:13.7	And this week we have a Super Tech Support.
0:21.4	Super Tech Support is the segment on our show where someone writes into us with a problem
0:26.2	that is bigger than they can solve and I try to solve it.
0:30.3	Because in your former life.
0:32.3	Because in my former life I was a Tech Support man.
0:35.3	A Tech Supporter.
0:36.3	So what do you have this week?
0:39.4	We got an email from a woman named Lizzie.
0:41.4	Hi, this is Lizzie.
0:42.7	Hey Lizzie, this is Alex Goldman.
0:44.0	How you doing?
0:45.0	I'm good.
0:46.0	How are you?
0:47.0	Lizzie's in her 20s.
0:48.5	She works with teens at a nonprofit and she told me that when she was on vacation over
0:52.5	Labor Day shit this very weird thing happened with her Snapchat.
0:56.5	Where were you when you realized that something was wrong?
1:00.7	I was in Asheville, North Carolina.
1:03.2	For Labor Day weekend vacation I think I was in the car and I wanted to Snapchat something.
1:10.8	I'm pretty sure that I wanted to Snapchat a brewery that I was passing and send it to
1:16.0	my brother because we had been there before.
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