Don't let them steal your phone number
This is a growing crime, but it's starting to get a little more press. Whatever carrier you have, you can put a secret pin on your account so that your number cannot be ported to another carrier witho...
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mda wrote:At the end of the article,
The article was about employees unlocking phones still under contract with ATT. It does not involve phone numbers. You buy a phone with a payment plan, the carrier locks the phone until it is payed off..
Verizon employee of providing customer information in exchange for bribes, which was used to steal victims’ phone numbers.
At the street level, if they present a fake I.D. to a gullible employee, they open up your account, purchase more phones, and they take your number, cause your sim card goes with it. But yes, they bribed the ATT employees to unlock it, install malware, ruin the phone so it gets discarded. Once they have your number they can do a full identity theft on you.
