Hey all
This isn't so much I need help as it is a story. Just wanted to see if anyone has any clue what the heck happened.
I have an iPhone 11 Pro I got with the IUP. I am on T-Mobile. When I got my new phone, I just put in my old SIM and saved the one the phone had inside.
This morning I wake up and I have no service. No LTE and no service even on wifi calling. My wifes phone, also on T-Mobile, is fine.
I give T-Mobile a call to find out what is going on. Turns out the SIM card my phone came with, the one that has been sitting in a box for 2 months, was automatically activated at 4am. I told him it wasn't me, I was asleep at 4am.
Then I remembered that I have been getting these emails from "Apple" saying "We noticed your phone isn't activated yet. We will automatically activate your phone on 11/17." The email mentions an AT&T account, whom I have not been with in about 3 years now. So the email is obviously fake. It doesn't have any links to click on but it does have a phone number 1-800-676-2775 which I know isn't Apples.
I told the guy at T-Mobile all this and of course he agreed something was up and he never heard of a SIM Card being automatically activated. He ended up turning my old SIM card back on as he felt it was safer.
I then called Apple just to basically tell them what happened. I don't if they full understood what I was saying. But now my one real question is, how did that SIM card number get out there? Who activated it? I never used it! If I was hacked, I don't by whom or which account was even compromised. My Apple ID has 2 step authentication.
Anyone ever hear of anything like this?
This isn't so much I need help as it is a story. Just wanted to see if anyone has any clue what the heck happened.
I have an iPhone 11 Pro I got with the IUP. I am on T-Mobile. When I got my new phone, I just put in my old SIM and saved the one the phone had inside.
This morning I wake up and I have no service. No LTE and no service even on wifi calling. My wifes phone, also on T-Mobile, is fine.
I give T-Mobile a call to find out what is going on. Turns out the SIM card my phone came with, the one that has been sitting in a box for 2 months, was automatically activated at 4am. I told him it wasn't me, I was asleep at 4am.
Then I remembered that I have been getting these emails from "Apple" saying "We noticed your phone isn't activated yet. We will automatically activate your phone on 11/17." The email mentions an AT&T account, whom I have not been with in about 3 years now. So the email is obviously fake. It doesn't have any links to click on but it does have a phone number 1-800-676-2775 which I know isn't Apples.
I told the guy at T-Mobile all this and of course he agreed something was up and he never heard of a SIM Card being automatically activated. He ended up turning my old SIM card back on as he felt it was safer.
I then called Apple just to basically tell them what happened. I don't if they full understood what I was saying. But now my one real question is, how did that SIM card number get out there? Who activated it? I never used it! If I was hacked, I don't by whom or which account was even compromised. My Apple ID has 2 step authentication.
Anyone ever hear of anything like this?