[Cattle Rustler]

(10-21-2018 10:56 PM)Duke Main Wrote:  

(10-21-2018 04:32 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  

(10-21-2018 04:10 PM)Duke Main Wrote:  

I changed my phone number recently because identity thieves wreaked havoc with my old one. Using my name, ssn and phone number, they called a rival cell provider and said they (I) wished to port my number to the new company. The new company was happy to oblige and the thieves then called my bank and said they lost their password and my bank sent a code to my phone # and I had no idea until I realized my phone was dead. It took me a few days to unravel and a few weeks later the thieves were able to do the same thing again, due to the laziness of my bank and tmobile. I asked tmobile, how can we stop this from happening? Their only solution was to change my account to a "no credit check" which disconnects your ssn from your account. The downside is that it makes you a third class citizen in the tmobile universe, no longer able to use autopay, and the worst part was I no longer had the seamless international usage, which was the main reason I switched to tmobile in the first place.

I realize this is a bit of a jumble so feel free to ask for clarification if you have specific questions. The bottom line is, my ssn is still out in the wild (probably along with everyone else what with all the hacking) so I changed my phone # to get a small layer of separation from id thieves.

You can still use autopay with a prepaid account, I did it for like 5 years before switching to Verizon.

You did that with tmobile? I attempted to set it up multiple times and was denied.

Log in to their website and set it up from there.

Since I was broke at times not too long ago, I would buy for the Tmo refill cards to go on special at Targets online store and buy them to refill my account. That way I wouldn't have to pay for taxes or their creditdebit card service fee....plus a discount. I save like 17 bucks overall every month.