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Lopelex45's avatar
Lopelex45
Network Novice
Hace 4 años

phone outage $100 ?

I got this as a text today and I’m wondering if it’s legit…

  • Pdgraves's avatar
    Pdgraves
    Network Novice
    Lopelex45 wrote:

    I got this as a text today and I’m wondering if it’s legit…

    I got the same. I blocked and deleted it. 

  • newishuser's avatar
    newishuser
    Transmission Trainee

    This screams "scam" even apart from the typos, the whole scenario is unlikely.   A real offer wouldn't be "$100 free gift", it would be something like a credit on your bill, paying $100 for a temporary less than one day outage is far too much, and you don't want to survey just people who have experienced an outage,   Consider the recent data breach.   That, which was truly serious, got something much less meaningful than $100 "gift"!

     

    Finally, those that blocked the sending number, what do you think that achieves.   Almost certainly an innocent spoofed number.

     

     

  • tchefalo's avatar
    tchefalo
    Network Novice

    I received it too and yet T-mobile makes no attempt to inform its hacked customers that this scam, which is obviously using hacked information, is being sent to those customers. They couldn't careless.