Yes, I have seen such several cases – and here’s one of them;
One day, my friend’s Zong SIM suddenly stopped working, when inquired from Zong’s service center they told him that his SIM has been ported out to Mobilink network upon his request; which he had never made.
My friend was obviously shocked to hear this because he had never sent any MNP request at Mobilink’s end, neither he had any plans in past or in the near future for doing so.
Poor and helpless – my friend went to Mobilink service center where he was told that his number was ported to Mobilink network, however they didn’t know who took his new SIM card, “now what you can do is – get a SIM replacement against your newly ported-in number and that’s it”, he was told by Mobilink service center.
This is one of those rare stories where mobile connections are ported to other networks without customer’s consent or even without their knowledge.
Here is how it happens:
Upon investigating the issue, and after discussing it at least a dozen officials, franchise dealers and mobile phone customers (who were victim of this), we have concluded following:
There are SMS messages being sent from unknown mobile numbers to cellular users which say
“You have won free balance of Rs 1000, to get your prize kindly send an SMS writing MNP to 667 and forward incoming message to our number 03XXXXXXXXX”
When a customer follows above steps to gain free mobile credit prize, receiver telecom operator quickly processes customer’s MNP application (of course with incomplete details i.e. no customer signatures).
I personally myself received such MNP scam messages which was intending me to port-out my numbers to other networks.
I don’t know whom to report, as obviously cellular operators would know this (and for fact I can confirm that they know of such activities), so the only authority left is PTA – which is so busy in counting the number of SIMs that i can’t see anything else happening in the market.
