YOUR MOBILE PHONE NUMBER CAN GET YOU IN TROUBLE !
YOU MAY EVEN GET A COURT CASE, FOR NO FAULT! YOUR MOBILE PHONE'S PAST CAN HAUNT YOUR PRESENT!
A legally procured Mobile Phone Number may also cause you harassment, mental agony, loss of work hours and financial damage. If the number you are buying has had any past, it may come to haunt you and even gift untold miseries. How to respond to such cases, read on.
(By India Input Desk)
Yes, Mobile phone numbers too, may have a past. That past may come back to haunt the new owner, at no fault of his or her. Next time as you step in a mobile store to buy a new number and a SIM, please remember to ask about the past ownership of the number if any and request to verify if there are any legacy issues, like dues etc. Not that, it would help much, but at least, this will ensure some of the possible problems stand eliminated.
THE MOBILE PHONE NUMBER MAY HAVE HAD A PAST
When you choose a mobile phone number, chances are it could have been in use previously, by some other consumer. There also exists a possibility of it having been used in a crime. The number may have the evidentiary value. There is absolutely nothing to worry. You haven’t done anything wrong or indulged in any wrongdoing. You only have to cooperate with the law.
In such circumstances, chances are the the agencies will be only interested in the Call Detail Records (CDR) which can be procured directly from the Mobile Service Provider. Thus, chances are that, you won’t be bothered. But, if the men from the law enforcing agencies do come knocking at your doorsteps, the only possible way out is to cooperate.
PAST DUES MAY BRING LITIGATION
It has been a fairly common occurrence, to receive calls or messages by unknown people addressing you as the mobile number’s past owner. You may get text messages for monthly servicing of your automobile or even get added in social media groups by and with unknown people.
There also exists a somewhat rare possibility of some unpaid dues against the number’s past owner. In such a case, you may get text messages from the Mobile Service Provider warning about the same. A recent case exposed the systems related issues at the provider’s end and the mental agony caused to the unsuspecting new user.
THE MOBLIE PHONE NUMBER’S PAST RETURNED TO HAUNT
When a user began receiving text messages about the dues in the name of the previous user, he chose to ignore the same. But soon, he was sent messages via SMS, by the service provider, regarding a court litigation to recover the pending amount. It asked him to remain present at a far away outstation court. It also threatened to deactivate the said number.
Alarmed after reading the text message, he dialed the number of one of the company’s representatives, as given in the messages. To add to his horror, the man at the other end seemed in no mood to listen. The man arrogantly asked him to either arrange to pay up the due amount or appear before the said court on the day as mentioned in the SMS.
The harassed user kept repeating, that he had legally procured the said number and the SIM after dully paying for the same at the company’s official store about four years back. He also sought to bring it to their attention that, it wasn’t his fault if the company hadn’t been able to recover any due from the previous owner of the number. But, all his pleas fell to deaf ears.
The biggest problem he faced was deactivation of the number, which could have harmed his business brutally. It may have caused financial uncertainties. This was giving mental agony and stress. The fear of losing his mobile phone number, made him unable to focus attention on his daily business.
Left with no other choice, the aggrieved user contacted his legal counsel and asked for an advice. Then, he approached the company’s store to lodge his side of the story. Upon sensing that the customer care executive was not helping him, he decided to take help from the social media.
He then tweeted a DM (Direct Message) to the Service Provider Company’s tweeter handle. Within hours, he received a call from the company’s customer care executives who gave a patient hearing. She calmly heard his tale of woes, then asked for a screenshot of the message and afterwards, kept updating him. Hopefully, the problem is on way to be solved and he may not receive any more warning messages.
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