These people claimed that they're from tmobile but they are not. They are scammers, they are trying to get your personal informations.
He told me that we need to settle of my outstanding bill. I told who the hell are you?? I'm current with my bill. I called tmobile just to confirmed if I'm behind on my payment, they said no. They advised to block that number on your phone.
A mobile phone company employee sold the details of half a million customers to a former colleague for thousands of pounds, a court heard.
Darren Hames, 39, stole the 500,000 items of data from T-Mobile, where he was a highly-paid area sales manager, to David Turley, 40, who had set up his own business to cash in on the scam.
Technology experts said the case, which is the first of its kind, would have led to customers being 'cold-called' with inducements to switch to rival phone companies.
It is an alarming demonstration of how easily personal data can fall into the hands of criminals, they added.
The men were yesterday ordered to pay back more than £70,000 as details of their crimes emerged.
Hames simply copied the information - including names, addresses and phone numbers - about customers whose contracts were due to expire on to a memory stick, and handed it to Turley at a McDonald's outlet.
Investigators found he had promised to supply Turley - whom he met when both worked at a T-Mobile office in the West Midlands - with details of 30,000 customers a month. Turley sold this on to a business targeting customers to switch to a rival operator.
Following a two-year investigation by the Information Commissioners Office, Turley pleaded guilty to 18 breaches of the Data Protection Act by obtaining, disclosing and selling the data between 2007 and 2008. Hames admitted two counts.
Yesterday at Chester Crown Court, Turley, of Birmingham, was ordered to surrender £45,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Hames, of Stone in Staffordshire, was told to pay £28,700.
If they fail to hand over the money within six months they go to jail for 18 months and 15 months respectively.
The scandal is embarrassing for T-Mobile, which was accused of failing to protect confidential information.
It also led to calls for a toughening of the law on data theft to enable those caught selling personal information - or failing to protect it from theft - to be jailed rather than simply fined.
A T-Mobile spokesman said: 'We hope this serves as a significant warning to those who seek to profit from unlawfully obtaining customer data'
I just left T-Mobile and move to sprint and I started to get this phone calls from the same number 201-297-4498 they never answer or leave a message. And yes, you want to keep your number and they still have it. That company is terrible. Can somebody protect us from this criminals.