Cricket Wireless Cricket gave away my phone number while I'm still using it! Austin Texas

Get ready for an unusual situation.

When I resolved to leave Cricket Wireless for T-Mobile, I decided to take my phone numbers with me (Mine and my boyfriend's, which happened to be on the same account)

Everything went smoothly until a few months after the switch. I kept getting "wrong number" phone calls from people who claimed that they absolutely did not have the wrong number.

After a few frustrated callers, a different person called claiming that they had just activated a new account and that this was THEIR phone number. (I guess the first few people who called were the new-account holder's friends who then advised the account holder that a random person was answering his phone)

After talking to the new account holder I discovered that he had just activated his account with none other than Cricket and that they gave him my "old" (but not actually "old" because I'm STILL using it) number.

And not only that, but they did it to my boyfriend's phone number too. (We confirmed it with his random callers as well)

Anyway, the new account holder with my old/current phone number told me that he would go back to cricket and have them change his number. He did.

Didn't do me any good because Cricket gave my number away to yet another unsuspecting victim.

I have been trying to get through to Cricket by calling 1-800-Cricket but as people who are familiar with Cricket's nonsense know that phone line is a depressing joke. If you're not an account holder there is absolutely no way you can get through to a live person.

So I took to calling their "activation" line but I hit a wall there too. They just told me to call 1-800-Cricket again.

I called FCC to file a report against Cricket. Maybe I'll hear something soon? I'll keep you posted.

Ffentoozler
Austin, Texas
U.S.A.