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(@AllMashUp)
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Received 5 calls and 2 messages in 10min to call back "its an emergency", probably trying to spoof or scam.... strong Jamaican accent...not Crucian, though the number originates from STT. Just a heads up but if anybody else receives similar thought it would be interesting to try to track.

 
Posted : October 3, 2010 11:23 pm
(@stiphy)
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Uh oh, sounds like last year's issue with Sprint where the tower's got hacked.

Sean

 
Posted : October 4, 2010 7:30 pm
(@Hiya!)
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Finally gave up sprint when our account got stolen for the 5th time. And times 3 thru 5 we had no internet account what so ever. Each time sprint made it extremely difficult to fix the problem, even though they know it a problem in the Caribbean. It was much easier to deal with my CC number being stolen one time in PR then with sprint.

 
Posted : October 4, 2010 8:43 pm
IslandPilots
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What do you mean your account got stolen at Sprint?

 
Posted : October 8, 2010 2:13 am
(@stiphy)
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About a year ago Sprint got "hacked" down here and people's accounts were basically cloned. It was a pretty large scale thing...2 of my co-workers accounts were cloned and it was a mess to get straightened out. There bills were for over a thousand dollars as hundreds or thousands of minutes and tons of data usage was piled onto their account. From what I remember, usually they would get tipped off because something would go wrong with the hack and they'd get a phone call from someone who thought they were calling them...usually someone in Jamaica. They'd check their Sprint bill and there'd be a thousand dollars in charges made over the last few hours.

I am loosely recollecting the details and everyone's experiences were different but this was the jist of it.

Sean

 
Posted : October 8, 2010 2:27 am
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