 what's up what's up what's up I hope everybody's doing super well I hadn't talked about this really at all but I wanted to do a video about it um it happened back on September 30th so I wanted to tell you guys like how this whole thing happened and what you can do to protect yourself and I've kind of been waiting to from the feds to kind of give me a breakdown of like how the whole thing works if I'm gonna get my money back stuff like that but I'll tell you guys the story so it was a Thursday it was September 30th I believe and I was on the phone with the client okay just on the phone with the client it was 515 so the phone call drops and the funny thing is my I had like three phone calls drop three phone calls drop that day had to reset my phone so I thought that was weird also I had a notification that day about two or three hours before they actually hacked me that's that there was a notification from Coinbase saying here's your code so I knew something funny was going on but I wasn't worried about it because I have my phone right I have my phone and I thought well I'm not worried about anybody getting in there because they don't have access to my text messages right so the phone call drops for the fourth time about 515 talking to a client then I get a text message that says your phone numbers being ported to a different carrier and I was like okay wait a minute so I tried to call Verizon it wouldn't go out on my phone I grabbed my wife's phone I call Verizon I put my phone number in and they say this is not a Verizon number this is not a Verizon number this number is not registered on the Verizon account so immediately when I heard that I said wait a minute this is real so I got in the car rushed to Verizon go there I'm like what's going on here you know like get my number back right now right like I got 20 years worth of real estate business coming in on this phone along with all kinds of other things like countless other things running all kinds of businesses all kinds of stuff and basically the guy was like I've never seen this before like here's how you call Verizon from your phone when it has no service and so right then like I was on the whole with Verizon in the Verizon office and then the Verizon shop and it hit me like a ton of bricks I remembered that I got that notification about Coinbase and I thought right then that's what's going on somebody's trying to hack into my Coinbase so I'm like dude get me online right now like put me like like put the Wi-Fi code on right now and let me get in here and get online and try to move some money around so I I go to my Coinbase and I try to transfer boom as soon as I hit transfer it says what's the code we just texted you I was like boom like I knew right then I was screwed I knew right then that I was done so so I was like wait a minute and then so then I got a notification that my password on my email had changed and I was like wait a minute so luckily I had a second email that I was able to to change the password back and then I rushed home like was running around like a gerbil trying to get all my passwords changed phone numbers changed on everything because I didn't know what all these hackers were gonna get into what all they wanted I was watching my Coinbase just dwindled to nothing and emailed them they shut my account down so I'm gonna hold with Verizon for two hours they finally come on long story short they figure out what happened they said somebody hacked into my Verizon account ported my number to a different carrier which later I found out was Metro PC and then we're able to intercept all my text messages at that point and so they were able to get that code that Coinbase text is you okay and that's how they did it they hacked into my Verizon account ported my number to a different carrier and then took over my phone and text messages so my advice number one to you guys is to get a portlock on your phone through your carrier a portlock that way they call you when your number is being ported and then see if it's really you okay that's the first thing the second thing is is I had some of my crypto in the exchange Coinbase and some in my wallet my MetaMask wallet and they didn't touch anything in my wallet like if it would have been in my wallet they wouldn't have touched it they didn't touch anything there so the second lesson is always keep everything in your wallet so basically I'm on the phone Verizon they tell me what's happening and they and I say I need my phone number back and they said well you can't you can't have your number back until you follow a pre-report get the police report to us we use the police report to send a Metro PC to force them to give us your number back so of course that didn't happen that night they gave me a temporary number I filed a police report got the report the next day I was on the phone with Verizon Regions the Gulf Shores PD and the FBI all day that next day and I had my number back by the end of the day they told me it could take up to a week but it was only 24 hours I was without my number thank God that was the biggest thing I was worried about to be honest with you and so that that's how it happened that's what you can do to protect yourself now my wife you know later on that night or maybe it was the next day I can't remember when it was but she said you need to do a video on how you handle this because it was like I mean I was scrambling around but the thing was was I really wasn't that bothered by this I really wasn't that you know like losing the money and stuff wasn't a big thing to me and she was like most people would have been throwing stuff cussing just out of their mind mad rage all kinds of stuff and I said yeah but the thing is is that money doesn't move me money doesn't move money's like not the thing for me it's not like what like makes me it's not like the root of my happiness it's not my identity is not my net worth and all that good stuff I really didn't care at all I just didn't want them to get my phone number start messing with all my clients so on and so forth that was the biggest thing for me and and I said you know listen when I tell people that I don't care if I go to zero tomorrow I really mean that shit I really mean it because the connections I've made the relationships I've created and the communication skills that I've developed over the years I could turn right around and make a million-dollar business tomorrow I got and look I've already lost a million back in my mid-20s and had to start over and made it all back again I've already done this there's nothing to it that didn't change my lifestyle I'm still gonna wake up every day and work work work that's all I know is grind I don't money doesn't change what I'm gonna do on a day-to-day basis you know some money just doesn't move me that's why I do everything for free that's why I coach for free that's why I turn my YouTube ad revenue off that's why I'm not charging ticket for tickets to come to my events the list goes on on on hours I spend with agents countless hours I spend with agents on the phone trying to help people never charging them a dime so anyway just want to let you guys know I haven't talked about it at all I know a lot of you've been asking so that's how it happened they hacked into my Verizon account ported my number and boom they were off to the races at that point so be careful out there keep all your keep all your crypto in a wallet and put and call your carrier make sure you have a portlock on your phone number all right take care guys we'll talk to you soon