Happy dance
Jul. 24th, 2003 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elbalesSometimes the good guys win.
Asshole stole my phone, as anyone close to me knows, in mid June. Okay, I lost the thing and he failed to return it; in my book, that's essentially theft. I was peeved; I bought a new phone; drama over. Curtain calls, people.
Not.
So yesterday I got home and found a message from Sprint. This is a courtesy call, it said, to remind you that we need the broken phone you replaced via warranty, or we'll charge you for the new one. Details of the transaction followed, including the address the new phone shipped to, one I had never heard of in my life. (Said address is in Los Altos, a city most of an hour's drive from here.) Please get back to us or we'll have to charge your account, they said.
I think not, I said, and called them just now.
Asshole goin' down!! He took my old dead phone, which I'd never realized couldn't be reactivated (muahahaha! satisfaction!) and went to a Sprint store and said, My phone broke, can I please get a new one? Now if he'd been smart enough to send in the old one he couldn't use anyway, I would never have heard about this unless *I* needed my new phone replaced under my warranty. (Maybe not even then, as I paid cash for my new phone.) And he probably would have gotten away clean. But no, he didn't bother sending in the old phone. So Sprint called me as above.
This guy not only gave them an address to ship to, and signed for the new phone with his name (unless that was a friend or his office manager or something) -- he *set up a new account.* Sprint's got *billing information* for him. And this guy committed fraud against Sprint.
Methinks that, at the least, he is going to find his service shut off. Personally, if I were in Sprint management and it were my call, I'd be making a call to the Los Altos Police Department. He is SO BUSTED.
Muahahaha.
Asshole stole my phone, as anyone close to me knows, in mid June. Okay, I lost the thing and he failed to return it; in my book, that's essentially theft. I was peeved; I bought a new phone; drama over. Curtain calls, people.
Not.
So yesterday I got home and found a message from Sprint. This is a courtesy call, it said, to remind you that we need the broken phone you replaced via warranty, or we'll charge you for the new one. Details of the transaction followed, including the address the new phone shipped to, one I had never heard of in my life. (Said address is in Los Altos, a city most of an hour's drive from here.) Please get back to us or we'll have to charge your account, they said.
I think not, I said, and called them just now.
Asshole goin' down!! He took my old dead phone, which I'd never realized couldn't be reactivated (muahahaha! satisfaction!) and went to a Sprint store and said, My phone broke, can I please get a new one? Now if he'd been smart enough to send in the old one he couldn't use anyway, I would never have heard about this unless *I* needed my new phone replaced under my warranty. (Maybe not even then, as I paid cash for my new phone.) And he probably would have gotten away clean. But no, he didn't bother sending in the old phone. So Sprint called me as above.
This guy not only gave them an address to ship to, and signed for the new phone with his name (unless that was a friend or his office manager or something) -- he *set up a new account.* Sprint's got *billing information* for him. And this guy committed fraud against Sprint.
Methinks that, at the least, he is going to find his service shut off. Personally, if I were in Sprint management and it were my call, I'd be making a call to the Los Altos Police Department. He is SO BUSTED.
Muahahaha.
