This happened to me as well. It even showed personal identifying information because it was a text from a clinic telling the person when and where their medical appointment was. Had their first and last name. There were a few more personal messages sent to them and there were texts from other people and to other people as well. Yeah. This is potentially a big exposure or blackeye for T-Mobile since they say they have no idea why or how often this happens and don’t want to know. The Ostrich defense often fails..
so was it in service for 40 days or no? you mentioned a year ago was a promo but did you take said promo then or are you just bringing it up for content? The answer is in the original post. I have never had it in service and never intended to.It was a provisional backup phone in case any primary phone of a family member on my T-Mobile plan failed. And if any had failed, it would only have been in service for a few days until the primary was fixed/replaced. It would have worked fine for that.I have 7 family members on my account, but I also have relatives who are not on T-Mobile. So, for example, if my Nephew (not on T-Mobile) breaks his phone, He should be able to use my fully paid for A32.I could understand a 40 day period that let T-Mobile prevent some weird scam. But 2 years after the sale even that doesn’t make sense. My complaint is not waiting for 40 days. The complaint is that T-Mobile is saying I have to take my flagship daily driver and put it in a drawer for 40 days while
If you're the original owner with a Tmobile account and meet the requirements in the link below you can request a code. https://www.t-mobile.com/responsibility/consumer-info/policies/sim-unlock-policy Gonna throw something in that I doubt will matter to the OP but may to others reading this thread. I’m going to start a new thread about this…..From the 5G for free promotion, I traded in a 4G phone we had as a backup should a DD become damaged, lost, or otherwise unusable while we shopped/waited for a deal on a replacement. The free 5G was a Galaxy A32. Free meaning the normal 24 month purchase payment was offset by a matching credit from T-Mobile. Never used the phone just powered it up now and then to get software updates.After the final payment I attempted to unlock the A32. The procedure just gave a cryptic error code and a broken link to get more info. I called CS and after a bunch of head scratching got bumped up to a higher level of support. They just head scratched for awhile
If someone is still texting that number it's still going to go to the router since it's assigned that number. When I got assigned my phone number I was getting all kinds of calls and text for the old user but luckily I was able to respond to them the they stopped. You can try contacting Tmobile support to see if there's a way to block them. I have no interest in stopping them since I will never receive any texts for me on my gateway and so have no reason to ever look at them (other than for a free private reality show). As I said, it is not good for grandpa Arron’s for his texts to be sent simultaneously to multiple devices (his actual phone, my gateway and who knows what other devices).And it's bad for anyone else who T-Mobile is sharing their texts with strangers. No way to know if its happening to you. I’ll give you 1,000 to 1 odds Grandpa Arron doesn’t know I’m getting his texts.The key would seem to be why/how are texts sent to one number get sent to multiple devices of multiple
The gateway is assigned a phone number and you're more than likely receiving the person who had the number before you. Except for the HAD BEFORE part. I am receiving texts NOW for someone who no longer has that number (or never did), and while I can just see one end of conversations, it's clear the texts are getting to grandpa because people are responding to him responding back to them. But the issue/question isn’t how it’s happening but rather that something T-Mobile is doing results in a phone customer's private text messages being transmitted to a random 3rd party in addition to going to them.If its happening to grandpa Arron, it could be happening to you or me.T-Mobile’s only response to my call was to offer to change the number of my gateway.Would not want that. I’m just starting to bond with the family. Am sad I didn’t see the messages about his nephew’s graduation in time to attend. LoL [/sarcasm]
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