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Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 6:21 AM

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Thieves Stole My Xfinity Mobile Number & Money, Xfinity Support Won’t Help

To be clear: I am only looking for documentation to provide my banking institution, but Xfinity Mobile Customer Support won’t even call me back.

The high-level details are that my Xfinity mobile number/sim card was hacked on January 17th, the store where I purchased the service suggested that I was the victim of a “line takeover” crime, but I have not been able to get documentation in order to prove that I did not withdraw the funds from my bank accounts.

I have placed multiple phone calls and store visits, but every time I am given an expectation for when someone will contact me, the Xfinity-given time elapses and I have to start all over again. It took five phone calls (including waiting for more than an hour at times) to even get a case number. I bounce back and forth from department to department and representative to representative. More often than not, they are kind at best, but more than one representatives have been unprofessional, without empathy and apathetic. I was emotional, but never rude and I did not ever raise my voice or use foul language.

I have been told that there’s nothing anyone can do, that I should file a lawsuit, a multiple representatives denied my request to open a fraud claims even after explaining the magnitude of the loss I’ve experienced. I have also been in contact with local law enforcement and have all required police reports.

This is different than credit card fraud – I am unable to operate the regular funds of my nonprofit, and my life savings are also being held because the withdrawals came from a clone of my phone number, but I did not initiate any of the transactions that moved the money.

It has now been over a month, and I still do not have this resolved. Once this is done, I will sever all ties to Xfinity as a company (already done with mobile, wifi is next after this horrendous experience). Regardless how many times we called, it always went to infinity phone transfers or be dropped with no reason. Based on this experience, it is hopeless and clear: Xfinity does not care about their customer's security or safety.


My next steps include looking for legal or media help, but I wanted to share my awful customer service experience here.

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1 year ago

@user_v13tj7 Thank you for reaching out to us here so we can do everything we can to help. We have a team of experts dedicated to helping with security issues that our customers face. You can reach out to our Customer Security Assurance team here and they have access to all the tools and resources to make sure you are taken care of.

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@XfinityEmilyB​ I reached corporate and legal today, still refused to help

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@user_v13tj7 I am extremely sorry to hear that was your experience. Have you been advised to submit the fraud details here? This will be investigated by our Customer Security Assurance team.

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Another update here, i called customer security assurance team yesterday 2/22, requesting account login log and access history and phone usage history. They first refused to provide and later when i found under my account ID and security page my account history only goes back to 1/23, so all the critical history during 1/17-18 while my account was compromised is gone!  We asked how this could be possible, the answer is they only keep history for certain days and the period can be very based on different case. Really?! I only onpened my account in November 2023, the entire history is within 90 days. Can someone let me know is it legit to wipe out user's history during the crime investigation?  Can anyone please response and contact me. 

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Hello, @user_v13tj7 thank you for taking time out of your day to follow up, and appreciate the detailed information. I was able to find the retention period for Xfinity Mobile, which looks to be 6 months: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/view-xfinity-mobile-call-text-history. 

 

I definitely don't want to provide any incorrect information in regard to if the information isn't available for you to review, I would have to default back to any information the CSA experts may be able to provide. From experience, working with the CSA experts in the past they have opened tickets for customer issues. When you were working with them previously did they provide an IH ticket number and a way to get back in touch with agent working the request? 

 

If you did receive a ticket number, please don't post it in our public conversation, I was just trying to confirm if you received an IH ticket number. 

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Yes I received IH number by calling assurance team on 2/22 but I was told the account log history only goes back to 30days. The log history before and during the crime took place are not visible! I can’t accept this answer.

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1 year ago

I reached out the legal team but they still refused to help

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1 year ago

Just had the same thing happened to me someone took one over my line and I don't understand how they're able to do that

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Thank you for taking the time to reach out to us @user_bd2bv3! Have you reached out to our Customer Security Assurance team?

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