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T-Mobile selling your # to hackers?
Had my cell number stolen by a dealer somewhere and put on a new sim and sold to hackers the other day. Anyone else having this happen? Not sure what the damage is as I am still picking up the pieces and changing passwords and checking my financial sites.
that you will need to discuss with gramps above. he has more info on this than i do. TMO will need to investigate what happened and how on their end. zero idea how long that’ll take.
fireguy_6364 wrote:
a bit of a jump from “TMOs selling your number to hackers” to it being done by a dealer somewhere..which im willing to guess even if it was through a TMO store it was probably a 3rd party owned one..
Doesn’t make me feel any better about it. Some third-party-owned TMO stores can access my records without any authorization and give someone a Sim with my number on it.
How does T-Mobile allow third parties do this? I mean, they have to know who transferred my number. If I file a police report who do I say did what?
a bit of a jump from “TMOs selling your number to hackers” to it being done by a dealer somewhere..which im willing to guess even if it was through a TMO store it was probably a 3rd party owned one..
Yea, I’ll try to do an online report. I guess I’ll call T-Mobile and see what they have to say for it.
You will need a police report if anything gets stolen plus you should find out who the dealer was who hacked your account.
Not sure who to call. T-Mobile undid the Sim stuff and apologized. I learned that it came from a dealer somewhere who bypassed all my security settings to steal my number.
What would I tell the police? Honestly I think T-Mobile needs to step up here and let me know what’s going on.
Did you report this to the police?
