Why should you lock your SIM card? Your mobile number is now intimately attached to your personal profile and financial security. It is your access to two-factor verification on many digital services, including Facebook and Twitter, among others. It is where your bank debit and credit alerts go, and it gives access via USSD code to banking transactions. Also, locking your SIM card prevents it from being cloned
Kindly find below the process to password your SIM card against phone thieves that might want to use the USSD code to carry out transactions from your bank account.
1. Go to SETTINGS on Your phone.
2. Go to SECURITY & LOCATION or BIOMETRICS & SECURITY then to OTHER SECURITY under SETTINGS
3. Go to SIM CARD LOCK.
4. Click on LOCK SIM CARD.
5. Enter Your mobile network default SIM CARD PIN.
*For MTN users it is “00000”. *For AIRTEL users it is “1111”.
*For 9mobile users it is “0000”
* For GLO users, it is “0000”
6. After entering the MOBILE NETWORK DEFAULT PIN, under it You will see ” CHANGE SIM PIN”, click on it to change to Your unique 4-digit pin,
7. Confirm Your unique 4-digit pin by entering it again & YOU ARE DONE.
So anytime You “turn On” Your phone You will be prompted to enter Your SIM CARD PIN just as You will be prompted to enter Your phone lock PIN or Draw Your PATTERN each time You “START” (ON) Your phone.
With the ACTIVATION OF SIM LOCK on Your phone, Your money can never be withdrawn from Your bank account through your SIM because Your SIM will be useless in their hands since it is blocked and You will not be under tension to go and block or retrieve Your stolen SIM.
Please kindly share this information with Your loved ones because the rate of phone theft these days is alarming as they (phone thieves) are not just after the phone but SIM CARDS linked to Your bank account.
WITH THIS INFORMATION, YOUR BANK ACCOUNTS ARE WELL-SECURED AND SAVED FROM HACKERS AND SCAMMERS.
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