Like the dudes that STILL use the same yahoo email they were using in '97.

"Why do I get sooo much spam?"

LoL

I feel you OP..

Just a few days before Christmas some cock sucking faggot from Vietnam hacked my email and got access to a bunch of shit and in the process, nuked my personal Facebook page.  Not that I was on it much, but updated it with pictures of the kids and kept in touch with many people.  Biggest loss was 20 years of photos, memories, posts, etc - even more so, posts and memories from/with my late wife  17 emails to every division of support at Facebook and haven't received a single response back.  I hope they all die horrific, painful deaths

First Tracfone and now QVC? What’s next, blueblockers and Buicks?

Like many have said, Never trust such an important issue to a third teir company

I have had my cell number for over 20 years.

I am self employed

Ill stick with Verizon

I'd recommend a google voice number that you can have forwarded to whatever number you have at the time.   If you're anti google Im sure there has to be other providers.

The number is no longer associated with my account. Worth a shot though. Got a link with Google Voice?

Fiat has been building cars a long time too.  I'm not sure what your point is.

Well that sucks. Have had my current number since 2007. First with Sprint and then moved over to ATT in 2016.

As for all the comments about using a "real" carrier, I've had business clients, on business accounts lose 10+ year old phone numbers due to fuck ups at Verizon and ATT.

That cuts deep...  the email I referenced in my previous post was my 25+ year old Hotmail account

Sounds like someone tried to steal your phone number, and it was locked by the carrier. Or.. they successfully stole the number and it is in the middle of being transferred to someone else on a different carrier.

They should be able to send you a password reset by sending a text to your phone.

EDIT...  after catching up on the thread it looks like someone stole your number.

Now you've got to remove that number from every account you have so the theives don't get into it.

I have a page plus phone as a burner.  I use it for craigslist or public deals, and I used it when I did online dating.  My real cell # is sacred

Do you understand the definition of "fly by night"?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fly-by-night

even after reading the definition, do you understand the term?  A company that has continually operated since 1996 is not even close to a "fly by night" company

https://voice.google.com

FPNI

Not using Tracphone is something that should have been learned in 2007

You can get a AT&T prepaid phone for cheap as well with service that is almost as good as the normal service for half the price.

Yes, that is what I am saying.

OP got hacked.

Now, did they already port it too? If so, your 2FA is going to someone else already.

Where else did you use the same password?

Whoops, did I get that mixed up I thought you were the one saying they were a FBN company

hahahah every time i see that i stop scrolling and let it play out in full

Yes, I understand the term. But the whole thing feels the same way.

So not fly by night, but just as good. Like Kia and Fiat.

Blackrock and Vanguard probably have trailer parks in their portfolios.  I'm not sure I understand your point.

But its not Verizon.  

And know you know

You used Tracfone for your business?

OP, go to the Tracfone Forum at the HowardForums. That's where you'll find the experts on stuff like this. If anybody can help you, that's where you'll find them, and you might even find some old threads with people having similar issues. In any case, it's worth a shot because those guys do know Tracfone and some of them have some phone numbers for reps that will cut through the bullshit.

https://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php/330-Tracfone-Net10

I beg to differ.
I have a tracfone, with a totalwireless plan, both owned by and ran on Verizon.

Absolutely nothing wrong with nor different from any other phone or network service.

I've used Straight Talk for 15 years. No problems with unlimited everything for $45.00/month. Started with At&t around year 2000. Switched service with the same number every thing smooth.

I don't have a Glock Switch.

But it caters to fly by night "clients", lol.

I don't think they're a fly-by-night company, they've been around for a while... but if you go with the cheapest service, you get the cheapest service.

Mom used them for a while, but we ported her number out to Google Fi, and I had her on my plan for a while. I might put her back on it later this year because it will save us both some money.


ETA: a little more detail on Mom's issues - She had a basic flip phone through them since about 2006 or so, then in 2018 or 19, she got an Android smartphone. I can't remember which brand or model, but she got it from them. In 2022 they told her the phone didn't support 5G and would be disabled, but the phone DID support 5G, and it was right there in the fuckin' settings menu. Dad tried to talk to Tracphone, but Dupinder couldn't figure out how to do the needful. They were adamant that she needed to buy a new phone to be able to continue service. I had just gotten a Pixel 6 Pro and had a Pixel 5, so I gave the 5 to my mom and got her on Fi. Porting her number out was a bit of a PITA, because there's a PIN you have to get, but you can't get it from Tracfone. They had to get it from AT&T.

I've had TracFone for a long time. Very inexpensive for a backup landline that my wife and Mom use. Unbeknownst to me, ATT was charging my Mom $125 monthly for her landline in Austin. They both have cell phones but like the ease and familiarity of a cordless phone. I think I pay about $30/year for 3 years at a time. But I have all their Drs and the like tied to my cell phone for simplicity's sake. TF has only glitched out a couple of times over the past +/-18 years or so.


ETA: SORRY had a brain fart. Landline is Magicjack. My TracFone is $25/month and has been trouble free for me since around 2009. Sorry again for the mixup

Haven't read long ass OP or comments but you can go to a cell provider and get that same number if  it just happened.

If they say they can't do it just leave because they just want to save a couple dollars and sign you up to a new one.

OP After the ordeal I had with Trackphone AKA Straight talk, I would do everything can to steer folks away from them.
My wife (the family CFO) made the executive descison that we were going to switch from ATT (who 90% of the people in our rural area use, for a reason) to Straight Talk to save a few bucks.

It took us over 20 hours Most of on the phone, with over 24 different reps, including 2 ""Corporate Reps"" trying to get my phone back online.  The wife had a Iphone, one of the latest 2-3 models. Hers switch over went relatively smooth. Took less than and hour and 3-4 phone reps and as many calls.  This have me a bad feeling.

Then we did mine. And the nightmare began.
I Every single person I talked to, I'd tell them, we have ATT currently and have bougght the SIM cards for our phone to switch over to S.T. and need to make it happen.  They'd as 3-4 questions, tell me to turn it off for 2 mins, then turn it on.  After several more mins they'd run me though a bunch of shit, then say they are very sorry and that it will take from 15-45 mins for the changes to take place and they would call me back. Someone new would call me back and I'd have to retrace my steps and tell them everything we had done with the last ST person we talked to.

By the 4th person, I started saying, look, I know how this is gonna go, I'd tell them exactly what the last person told me and what we'd tried, then I told them what they were going to tell me and what we were going to do. They they'd say Oh No, very sorry, we get you taken care of, then repeat the exact same shit I told them they'ed say and they'd very sorry again and say someone would call be back at which point, I'd log their name and we'd wait for the next call and do the same shit, over and over.


Finally, the next morning they had escalated me to their "Corporate Help folks".. I think they just had a bigger Dot on their forheard and a bit more Turmeric in their diet..  Same shit.

Finally, I flipped out, hung up and drove 40 mins to a Walmart  and back in electronics, where by the graces of God, I found a guy who worked for "Professional Cellular" a company who sold all the cell players and worked inside walmart's.

When I told him what I had been dealing with, he grimaced and said "Straight Talk", ewww, bad choice and one of your main issue.
Called me Big Dawg like 8 times....  Douche bag...

But he tried everything he could.  At one point, I said, Man, I'm starting to get really worried, This is my work number.
Everyone I have known or dealt with for 25+ years, personal or professional has this number,  this phone is tied into my work VPN, so I can log in and work on stuff when not at near a PC, if something goes down, I get alerted by my network monitoring system, all my bank and stock stuff are tied in, etc.. etc...  I don't care what it takes, I need to leave here with a phone working, with this number.

800 Bucks later, I had a new phone, a new SIM card and a new phone case and he had moved like 98% of the crap from my old phone to the new one and I was working again.

F^cK Straight Talk and Any thing to do with them!!!!

I would not sign up with them if they paid me 50.00 a month for life to use their service.

After my deal, I 100% Agree, VZW or ATT..  He told me, that if you run on one of the resellers, you're basically a 3rd to 5th class citizen as far as network priority and access and not to expect any support.

If you have lost access to the account like it sounds like he has and I've seen others do, you can't do that.

I've heard of it happening and folks spending weeks fighting and not getting their number back.

Normally, porting a number is not a big deal, folks do it daily, but when shit goes awry, it sucks.

Thanks. Signed up and awaiting approval.

Why do you hate Ferdom?

This phone number is vitally important to your personal and Business life...and you trust it to TracFone?

That's on you.

Your post gave me a sinking empty feeling.  I always knew I was playing against the odds. I have had a Cell phone since 1987. Started out with a bag phone and carried a pager for years. I was strapped and chained to my business and paid the price many times over. Have been with Verizon most of my life.  Their corporate rates reamed me after being faithful for 20+ years. After down sizing my business,  advertising , pagers and Verizon was first to go.

"Just as good"

OP is rocking some NCSTAR and TAPCO guns I bet.

Like has already been suggested, see if you can port the number.  Then at least you'll know if it's still yours.

If it makes you feel any better, a friend of mine went through this with AT&T.  He finally resorted to just badgering customer service until they fixed it so he would go away.

Sometimes you save your shillings for the good stuff. If you only knew.

Seriously bad idea to not have a tier 1 company handling your phone service especially if it's tied to your business.

The plot thickens. Just received multiple replies through text that my old number is active. It was hijacked last night and a new customer already had it by 1030 this morning.  Poor folks will be getting No heat and no A/C calls and texts at 2 AM.  What a ClusterF@$k

Start contacting other carriers and see if they can use your phone and port the number over.  Maybe go to a real store.

I didn't know TracFone was still a thing.

We  use Verizon  and  have for at least 20 year or more.
Do recommend

.....

That sucks OP, I've had my number for 30 years plus and fuck those giving you shit about it.

Thanks for the sound advice. Will call Monday and see what happens. You have to be brave and thick-skinned to post a thread in GD.

Burner phone problems.

Yep, and with your new tracfone number you'll be getting calls of when your going to drop the dope or booty calls.