Privacy issues are most common now a days, due to advancement of technologies and lack of proper knowledge lead to many vulnerable loopholes in the system for the hackers to attack. One of those weak points are sms.
You have never imagined that you only have given the permission to someone to read all your sms, yes you did! Those are some certain apps which are going through all your sms.
The question is why apps require the sms permissions?
Apps require the sms permission because it is needed somewhere in the normal day operations, for example your default sms app requires your permission to read and store your incoming and outgoing sms's that is why it need the permission, then you should ask yourself that why the apps like flashlight and else require your sms, yes! they are fooling you, you may get scammed.
Why you should not give the permission to the apps?
- They can see your OTP's
The most vulnerable thing is that, giving sms permission to the fake apps can lead you to the banking fraud, They may do the transaction by some means and when OTP is sent they may see through your SMS, this can happen with anyone, however chances are less but better be safe by not giving the permission.- They may see your last digits of your credit cards.
They may see the last digits of your credit or debit cards and can send bank look like messeges which may lead to potential fraud.- They may see your transaction and can fraud you accordingly
They may send you failure messeges by seeing your transaction details stating that your previous transaction is failed send the payment to this A/C or this id.- They may see your purchase details and show advertisement
They may see the details of your shopping status and may harash you by spamming better deals which are mostly fake.How to turn off your SMS permission to any apps.
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