Almeuit
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True point. Another point I forgot was my 2 Step Verification for many things. These are items tied to my phone.
Yep so if unlocked someone could initiate these things and start to get into your accounts. I personally don't care if it is my Twitter account or something dumb.. I don't want anyone in any account. Obviously financial accounts would be the worst.
That is why I lock it down. If they get a hold of it they can't get into it and I don't have to panic to remote wipe it right away (in case I didn't have a PC or something I could get into in order to do it quickly).
One of the biggest scams that hit a lot of T-Mobile users (from reading the /r/tmobile reddit) was with Wells Fargo. People would social engineer the reps into gets numbers ported, the scammer then used their number to reset Wells Fargo password, and then got into their accounts. While this is different then you phone being unlocked the same could be done if someone walked up and said "Hey an unlocked phone" and wanted to do mischievous things such as this.