August 11, 2006

T-Mobile loophole

How to rob T-Mobile, part 1.

On Ebay, people are selling SIM cards for T-Mobile To Go, their prepaid product.

The SIM card comes with $30 airtime! Pretty good deal. (Only 100 minutes...but you get the idea.) It's a good deal because they are selling the card for $8ish. So you can buy $30 of airtime for $8.

Except you get a new phone number every time.

Well, I just discovered a trick. Call and say "hey I lost my phone. I just bought a new SIM card though. Can I recover the old number?" They will take your $30 credit on the new phone and put it on the old account and then swap the old phone number onto the new SIM. So....you have $60 on the phone.

Posted by amol at August 11, 2006 09:25 PM

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