Fraudulent Sale of My SIM card

That shouldn't have happened to you and I'm sorry you've had to contact us more than once to report this. I want to make sure an incident report was filed as well as answer your questions.

• We have a dedicated team that cooperates with law enforcement involving identity theft.
• Our internal team will investigate what happened with any fraudulent activity on your account.
• We only give account access to customers that are able to fully verify the account. It's hard for me to say exactly how without looking into how the store experience went.
• We can have folks follow up with you after filing that incident report to give you peace of mind.
• We do have more identity theft and fraud information on our Identity Theft | Protecting Yourself Against Identity Theft page. This page includes what T-Mobile does to prevent this from happening.

To file this incident report, we need one of our TEX or T-Force folks help to properly verify and access your account. Afterwards, they'll collect information about what happened and send this report to our internal fraud team to investigate.

I removed your information from your post because this is a public forum and we don't want folks to have that info. An incident report needs to be filed and we don't have the account access needed to do that here. Our TEX and T-Force folks do and will send and incident report to our Fraud team if you contact them.

Our Team of Experts (TEX) are customer services folks you speak with over the phone. They're a good resource if you're not using social media.

Yes. Troubleshooting, and changes that need account verification.

I like your breakfast better than Wheaties. 😊

I had someone hack into my Walmart online account and order several unlocked phones using my credit card that was stored in my account. I noticed that these savvy crooks changed my email address to an address that looks similar to mine... and they had the merchandise shipped to a different address that was listed on my account... the funny thing was, that this person hacked my account, used my credit card and Walmart was actually protecting the identity of the theif...lol. They would not provide any information about the person, or the address and phone number they used. A company should protect the interest of the customers not hide the information of the criminal. Luckily i was able to go into my account and look at my profile and screenshot the address the theif used. Im sure it was one of those mailing portal po boxes.... but at least i felt like i had some information to ease my nerves.

I really wouldn't expect T-Mobile to keep you in the loop regarding someone hacking into your account. They may handle this matter internally or maybe not... you will probably never know. Companies don’t share information to the consumer or public inorder to minimize how large this problem may actually be.

I received a document in the mail involving a class action lawsuit against T-Mobile for a data breach that occured some time ago... I ripped it up and tossed it in the trash..... i don’t like getting involved in those things.... and what If that class action lawsuit paper was a scam also... and stupid me...fill this information out and the scammers get more personal info from me.... GoTcHa 😠

i hope your dilemma gets rectified in the end...

Yeah, I wonder if the same hacker initiated a sim swap attack on me. The dates that the hacker was able to infiltrate my accounts were on the 7th and 8th of January before they attempting to hack me again roughly 6 weeks later.

I am not at liberty to go into great detail but its apparent that the person is not using a fake California ID and is no stranger to Tmobile.

I found multiple numbers the person used, one of them had at least 50 devastating comments ranging from individuals financial accounts being drained, to marriages being destroyed or children being taken from their parents because they no longer had money to support them, to individuals conveying they were going to commit suicide. One of the numbers the hacker bounced off of had no comments at all, and I know its the golden ticket.

Tmobile has been well aware of sim swap attacks for years and never did anything to protect their clientele.

The Experian hack a few years ago acquired 21 million names and everything about those individuals; phone numbers, addresses, social security numbers, etc... and guess what, all 21 million names that were stolen, all Tmobile account holders.

Tmobiles response; free credit checks for a year.

How about improving your security measures? Requiring just a persons last 4 digits of their social security number to obtain a new sim card is reckless, especially after the Experian hack and when the company knows these other hacks are occurring and their customers lives are being destroyed because of it.

How about security questions just like your competitors or similar to the ones you use for when we sign on to these online accounts?

I havent even begun to scratch the surface of what transpired in regards to my situation.

The only remaining details I can inform you of right now is that 10s of thousands of dollars in crypto (worth hundreds of thousands just a few months ago and will be worth at least that amount a few months from now) was stolen from me and Tmobile was complacent.

The only reason I am still with Tmobile is because after hours of conversations with representatives and repeatedly conveying to them what had happened to me I was finally able to speak to a higher up and have unprecedented security measures applied to my account that has eliminated the possibility of this travesty ever happening again to me.

Its unlikely that other carriers which dont have a relationship with me would integrate the protocol I demanded from Tmobile so Im stuck underneath two enormous boulders.

The third time the hacker attempted a sim swap attack they were unsuccessful because of the safeguards now in place but 99.9999% of Tmobiles customers do not have the security that I do which is incredibly unfortunate and will be damning to many of them.

Hopefully with enough lawsuits Tmobile and all other providers will begin properly integrating the necessary security measures to safeguard individuals from being robbed of their finances in addition to being robbed of their dignity and livelihood.

People are suffering in inconceivable ways and in most situations Tmobile has done absolutely nothing to assist them or even taken the necessary steps to stop these absurdities from happening to others and causing more hardships.

I wish you all success and happiness.

Hello, why don't you tell us all what security precautions you have negotiated with T Mobile so we can all try to get them too?

They most likely will not appropriately secure your account until you incur irreparable financial damage like myself but attempt to require a sim card lock which can only be unlocked from within their "Fraud Department". Short of having that specific safeguard, you will be susceptible to being hacked by an insider. Because the individual had the ability to bypass my 12 digit passcode and 2 security questions no one on earth knows besidemyself, it is evident an employee of Tmobile was either the hacker or at the very least an accomplice. The level of authority this person had was not high enough to manipulate the "Fraud Departments" system which would have enabled them to acquire a new sim under the guise of being me. Once that lock was established, the insider could only shut my sim card off by claiming it was lost, but was not able to convince the Fraud Department that they were me and be issued a new sim. I hope I have been of some assistance. Please inform other's who are vunerable as well.

-J

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Hello, why don't you tell us all what security precautions you have negotiated with T Mobile so we can all try to get them too?

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You're quite welcome 

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very helpful, thank you!

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They most likely will not appropriately secure your account until you incur irreparable financial damage like myself but attempt to require a sim card lock which can only be unlocked from within their "Fraud Department". Short of having that specific safeguard, you will be susceptible to being hacked by an insider. Because the individual had the ability to bypass my 12 digit passcode and 2 security questions no one on earth knows besidemyself, it is evident an employee of Tmobile was either the hacker or at the very least an accomplice. The level of authority this person had was not high enough to manipulate the "Fraud Departments" system which would have enabled them to acquire a new sim under the guise of being me. Once that lock was established, the insider could only shut my sim card off by claiming it was lost, but was not able to convince the Fraud Department that they were me and be issued a new sim. I hope I have been of some assistance. Please inform other's who are vunerable as well.

-J

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Hello, why don't you tell us all what security precautions you have negotiated with T Mobile so we can all try to get them too?

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I’ve been a loyal customer of T-Mobile for over 15 years, however, just this past Wednesday (8/12/2020) my identity was stolen.  Someone purchased a SIM card at the Cerritos, CA store and were somehow able to switch out my SIM number with the new SIM purchased.  I’m just shocked that they were able to do this.  From there they were able to change the email, password, security questions and user name.  My phone was literally disabled so easily.  To add to my frustration the thief ended up trying to purchase nearly $5000 worth of security itmes at a Best Buy.  They might have opened up another account, but I need to await my credit alerts to see anymore damage was done.  I guess they’re trying to disable your phone so that when you do a get a call from Citibank or whatever bank you have they can’t call you to confirm the purchase amount. Thankfully after spending time with T-Mobile customer service I was able to enable the use of my cellphone again just as Citibank called to verify my identity before the purchase could be processed.  The thief was in the store while I was online with Citibank verifying the purchase!!!  It’s been a nightmare having to add fraud alerts to all three credit bureaus and having to change my account information back on T-Mobile. Just wanted to add a backstory  to this type of fraud that’s going on in the store.  

My question is doesn’t the store check the customer ID or driver’s license before processing such a request.  It seems like it was so easily done.  I’m not sure what the exact identity procedures the store goes through, but this was indeed a headache.  Not sure what else can be done on my end to protect myself in the future.  

This just happened to me twice in the same week.  I’ve been a customer for 17 years.  T-mobile fixed the issue by reverting the code back to my phone.  It just happened again yesterday after a few days.  They are investigating again!