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fraudulent number porting! account hacked.
Rant alert! Summary: ID mobile security is not existent. My phone number was stolen! Yesterday at 09:24 I got a txt message to say a SIM activation was in process. I was unable to log into the account to deny it was me, I thought I would try again later as I was busy with work. Later that day I realised my phone signal was gone and only working from WiFi, checking my emails I can see that someone has reset my Amazon, PayPal and email account with my phone number so I was logged out! They were also able to work out my bank details from the accounts to try and access online banking. I managed to briefly get access to my accounts by using a recovery email, they then again kicked me out with the mobile phone number for password recovery method. I set up a live chat with ID mobile around 5pm and they advised me the phone number had been stopped, and to get another SIM, I opted to go to Currys and pick one up before the shut at 8pm. But they were still able to get access to my accounts. The phone number I kept trying over night and it was still ringing so I called the automated phone and reported by phone stolen. I've been up until 4am this morning trying to get access to my accounts and get control. After 2 hours sleep, at 6am I rang my number and it was still connecting so I made another live chat to try and stop the number, this time they were successful and shortly after the number was going to voicemail. (Not 100% proof that the number was blocked I admit), at the same time they activated my SIM from Currys as I don't have access to my account (same as a lot of people right now). After an hour still nothing. So another live chat and. After a while we were able to get my number back (thank F##k) but still unable to get onto my account. I'm currently sat in fear my number will be taken again. As I still don't have access to my account or a personal email as i reached the recover email limits. And I've lost 2 days work as a result of dealing with this. I am beyond angry with ID mobile, as I don't believe I've been an victim of phishing (but I could be wrong). How can someone just take my number?!!!! There was no verification by me either with my phone number or email to port it.
How on Earth do I get a replacement SIM?
This is insane. Never use ID Mobile! I had my phone stolen on a weekend. On the Monday I ordered a new ID Mobile SIM card via Currys as it suggests you do on this very website. After 2 days or so the SIM card arrived at my local Currys store so I picked up the SIM. You can only purchase pre-paid pay-as-you-go ID Mobile SIM cards from Currys, but since it said it on this website I assumed they could simply switch your number over to the new SIM. Bare in mind, I had already blocked my old SIM and handset via the ID Mobile user online portal. You can’t order a new SIM card directly from the user portal like every other mobile phone network in the country. You also can’t activate a new SIM manually via the user portal, you have to talk to an agent via ID Mobile’s Live Chat. So I went to the Live Chat module and got through to an agent who said they can activate my new replacement SIM for me, so I read out the code on the new SIM card and the agent said it might take up to an hour to take effect and I might also need to restart my phone. By the end of the day, after restarting my handset a couple of times, hours since the Live Chat agent had said the new replacement SIM should have been activated with my original number carried over, it wasn’t. So the following day I got back on the Live Chat module and spoke to a different agent who again activated my SIM card (as if the previous agent the day before hadn’t done anything, there was no evidence from my second conversation that the SIM had been activated). Yet again, the SIM card did not activated within 24 hours. I was become quite infuriated since there was an ID Mobile SIM card inside my handset! The next day I again got onto the Live Chat module, spoke to yet another ID Mobile agent, and this time I explained in great detail my kafkaesk situation. The third agent told me they would send another replacement SIM directly to me, something I suspected I should have done right at the beginning. Then the agent logged off before I could ask what to do when I receive my new SIM in the post. There was no evidence that the SIM had been sent to me, no email confirmation, nothing. The agent had said it would arrive in 2-3 working days. It has now been over a week and there is no sign of it in the mail. I checked my account to make sure the address was correct, it was. So my question is this: how on Earth does one get a replacement SIM?