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Orignally posted by TheEpitome1920: Has your chapter had a service project where you donated used cell phones to a battered women's shelter? Or something similiar?
Well a Soror informed me the other day that she participated in this program and SOME HOW a person was able to get the phone turned back on in HER name. She wound up with a $3,000 cell phone bill. Has anyone else heard of this happening?
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No / N/A.
Although, a similar thing happened to my dad. His car was broken into in say about August and his cellphone was stolen. It was reported to the police first and then to the cellphone company that he had the contract with - where he gave them the crime number. He only had a month to go on his contract so it was agreed he'd just get a new SIM/phone but that he wouldn't need to change all his direct debits for the new contract (same account #).
He also had a pay as you go SIM so he waited a while to go and get a new phone with new contract SIM etc. He went in to the store, arranged things and all was well with his new phone, new number, same account.
Some time later, he gets a text message asking him to call Customer Services. He does so (I spoke to them too), the company messed up and reactivated his cancelled (blacklisted as was stolen) number instead of whatever else they should have done and in 3
days that person rang up a (equivalent of) over $1000.
Since he had the crime number logged with them and he had reported it stolen and they shouldn't have reactivated it, he didn't have to pay any of that.
I hope your friend (although it wasn't stolen) took measures to ensure the phone company knew she no longer had the phone.
She should also report it to the police asap. Regardless of who might've used it or their cirumstances (and chances are from the size of the bill that the phone was sold on).