I am going to throw some obvious advice into the ring.
In a public forum, try not to reveal with which provider you are.
In a public forum, try to reveal as little as possible about which devices you have.
In a public forum, reveal no more than month (not exact day if you can avoid it, and definitely not year) of DOB. Don’t state your age.
In a public forum, don’t discuss any detail that relates to any password you use or have used, or to any secret answer/hint to any account you use or have used.
If you use online banking, don’t say so.
Be aware of what porting is. If your phone suddenly stops receiving/making calls, contact your provider urgently. It’s better to be paranoid than ported.
Any data we post on apps/social media - ANY data - passes out of our control and can be hacked.
Little clues can be put together by “malicious actors”, and ordinary Australians are being targeted.
Those are some of my thoughts, and I hope these points might prevent someone from being scammed and/or having their identity stolen.
