This one is serious, some GoPhone users reported that AT&T or other carriers will shut off your phone, meaning your whole phone # will be terminated due to this fraud scam. OK, so what is this? – This a scam or fraud by hackers or by anyone in the world, and probably outside of US, what they do is, using stolen credit card #, they use those credit card to buy GoPhone refill pin or pin gift # and sell it to you for cheap, let say $25 refill, they will sell to you for about $15 $16 just to make reasonable and doesn’t have much scam or fraud indication, they hope to get a lot of people will buy it because it’s so cheap, and if many people doesn’t about this, they would buy it and use it, and yes your phone will work and credit will show – But, guess what? Your phone company provider let’s take AT&T for example, will shut your phone off because you violated their policy, somewhere on the small print will indicate this activities. Ebay is trying to catch these activites as well, not just craigslist and forums communities users, it’s very bad whoever doing this kind of business. If you find deal too good to be true, it’s probably not true, there’s a catch, it will haunt you. So for this case, phone card refill, I say stay away from GoPhone and pay as you go crap, get yourself a monthly plan or add to another trusted person plan for $10 a month, it’s so cheap now a day, don’t go for these cheap refills too good to be true or if it’s true but it’s not. So be careful 🙂 Especially on ebay classifieds – Don’t buy virtual products on classifieds post, buy it through ebay process not the link on the classifieds, this includes forums, craigslist and email.
