Stranger is actively using the number associated with phone line for my home internet.
My home internet device gets spammed daily with texts of recent activity, current lyft rides, personal sms from someone named Keith. They have multiple online accounts linked with the number. I see daily lyft ride sms sent to him and 2fa codes for virtually every type of account this person has whenever he tries to login anywhere. It goes as far as even showing his government login links with verification codes for this person. I texted my home internet number from my mobile phone line requesting anyone who receives this message to cease use of this number immediately. To which I received a response text. Just stating "I'm scared". Even more concerning is how they are still actively receiving any texts that go to my home internet's line. Let alone reply to a text I sent from my mobile phone to the line. This is a serious security issue for me. My business runs on my tmobile home internet. I don't want potentially bad actors to be able to read my own SMS verifications in the future if I were to makean online account using the line. Let alone having my business internet spammed with someone else's personal data and information. This puts me in a situation where I cannot use the phone line number myself to set up onlineaccounts likefor exampleLyft. I assume because it is a reused number that the previous owner of the number has it linked to many online accounts. And simply just hasn't or is refusing to remove the number's associations with his accounts. When my box gets spammed with these texts it will slow down the device and sometimes cause a hard crash causing me to forcefully reset the device. This person is still having correspondence with unknown people through my number which I've received their intimidating sms back and forths on my home internet device. There are services like google voice where someone can input a real phone number to receive a virtual one where texts and calls can be forwarded, managed, and sent from. I can only suspect the previous owner of the number has attached the line's number to one of these services in the past and is still actively interacting with the line that way to read them. Just deleting these texts isn't enough. Thischanges the performance of the device and makes it a security risk. There is still no option from t-mobile on the websiteto block sms for the device entirely. On the online portal selecting the home internet line in block settings just gives you this warning. "This line does not include these settings."
Home Internet Gateway WiFi Channel
I have theT-Mobile Home Internet Gateway (aka 5G Gateway) based on the Sagemcom chipset. Model: Sagemcom FAST5688W Firmware:SGJi10205-1.2.B4 It keeps selecting the most congested WiFi channel in our condo, it's very strange. Can I use the "Nater-Tater" config file approach (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3ZhGYEl2I) to change the WiFi config, similar to the Arcadyan KVD21 that Nate uses? Thank you in advance.
Ported my number to join my roommates plan; he wont allow me to have access to my line!
I did not think someone could take over my line by just adding me to their plan? I went into a corporate store and found out that I had to wait 60 days to put in for a transfer of liability but my problem is this…I noticed someone accessed my phone number/line and would notice that in the call logs/text logs at times where I would be asleep or not on my phone texting those numbers. When I mentioned that to my roommate, he gave waited 3 days to add me as an authorized user, then, barred me completely the same night and I do not think that is legal. I am finding an out what my options are; and will file this with the appropriate government/telecommunications agency-but if this sort of thing happens, and I lose access to my accounts and finances, school email and other personal and private logins tired to that phone number…what can I do? I'm sure this sounds very random, or dramatic for no reason - but I have reason to believe this may not have been my been in my best interest so I could be susceptible to my roommateson what I can do? PS- A few days after getting the line, I noticed an login saying I could use DIGITS, and it was activated. I mentioned that and he said he had not idea. 😒 Let'shope this isn't anything more than my precautions. -ChicagoJB
