That is what happen to me with new Airtel i bought and registered last month. Someone called me and said, that sim you are using belong to my daughter.

Am having the same issue, am having several northern call me on the new line I brought, I even reach credit n debit alert on the line

Truth you didn't still his phone but you are holding his sim, I'm waiting, for the day my phone will ring and I will shake whoever is holding it, I have been to glo office several times even with affidavits yet they don't want to release my sim God go catch them.

Sidneyjack:

Not only etisalat but all the telecom lines. I had the same experience, that was 2011 when mtn introduced magic number. I bought a new sim in my town registered it and used it as a magic line to call my girlfriend and that time I was serving in Jo's plateau state. After two days of using the sim, I got a text message from some one telling me "oh so you finally on this phone, that things will not be better for me" I was shocked after reading and I had to call the person back and told him that please he should retract that course, that I am innocent of what he is accusing me of. I told him I just bought the line this week and registered. He said the line was used to commit a crime in Lagos, that he has been trying the number since . After my explanation he begged me that I should not be annoyed and we understand ourselves. What if he a police trailing on me for arrest of a crime I know nothing about

The problem I have with our police is the fact that they don't do thorough investigation. Once a sim is recycled and sold, the new owner's biometric is captured on the service provider's database. The old owner looses ownership after inactive period. Our police men will just zoom off to arrest someone using a sim without liaising with telecom operators and obtaining warrant from the court

Mylovelife:


My sister's line was reassign within a week, I swear. It was her main line, so she had to retrieve it but unfortunately she couldn't because someone else was already using it.

Within a week?

thanks

Mylovelife:




I have been maintaining my elder brother's line for 9 years now. I bring it out once in a month, call myself and then use my line to call his line. He gave me his airtel and his girlfriend his mtn. His girlfriend probably misplaced the line and someone else retrieved it and started recharging from the line. My brother got email alert of the recharge , called the bank and his number was removed from his account

There is nothing you can do about it now, than to contact your bank to remove your number from your account.

PurestBoy:

If you've never been wrongly called by Aboki/Hausa who will still keep calling after telling him it's wrong number. You must be very lucky

Sent u a pm. It's about frozen fish business. Pls let's chat, need ur input badly. Thanks

An airtel line I bought and registered and yet to activate, I am already getting calls from some random people.. After reading this I won't load card in that line to activate it. But won't throw it away either.

Abuleoshi:

Ogbeni calm down. This your story get K-leg. The rule is a line is suspended after 90 days (3 months) of inactivity. After the suspension, it takes another 6 months to recycle the number. Then another 1-2 months to get it to the point where a new customer can buy the line.
So this your story of 1 month na burnt dodo!

Lie!
They do not follow that protocol.
If you have ever experoenced the shit, you will know.

Excellent7:


Lie!
They do not follow that protocol.
If you have ever experoenced the shit, you will know.

OK.

Its not supposed to be so but because our service providers are not recycling them properly thereby exposing the peace & lives of numerous new owners of such re-cycled lines to danger and criminal cases most times. If a line is professionally recycled, old contacts of such lines should not be able to contact the new user(but we all know the reverse is the case in nigeria)....also, if a line is professionally recycled, no trace of the pictures/details of the registered old user should be found on the line anymore(which is also not true in nigeria. Truecaller will still show name&picture of old registered user. Which is very incriminating)