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Sprint Reps No Longer Allowed To Quote Customer In Quotes In Case Of Subpoena?
Interesting, completely unverified, tidbit from an anonymous Sprint employee: "We're no longer allowed to quote the customer in our notes [on the account] because if they're subpoenaed by a judge then they'll be evidence proving they're telling the truth regarding their situation." Any Sprint insiders care to comment?
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Round 28: Sprint vs Hewlett Packard
This is Round 28 in our Worst Company in America contest, Sprint vs Hewlett Packard. Vote which sucks more, inside...
More »Sprint Customer's Number Gets Ported Without Authorization; Email To Executives Gets It Back
Robb spent almost two and half hours with Sprint CSRs trying to find out why his phone had stopped working, and eventually he was told that it had been ported to AT&T, and that it would "take 4-5 days to try and get this number back if at all." Fortunately, he was able to send the following email directly to their executives and got the matter cleared up the next day.More »
Soldier Requires Local Media To Get His Money Back From Sprint
While Jeff Cannizzaro was off fighting in Iraq, he was also fighting Sprint. Jeff suspended his phone while overseas, but left some money in the account. While he was away, Sprint kept deducting small amounts from his balance. His wife kept calling and writing emails, trying everything they could think of to get Sprint to stop deducting the money. Nothing worked. More »Sprint's "Nucking Futs" "Jessica" Fired
Jessica: I work for the company that hires the chat agents for sprint. I just wanted to let you know that after you guys posted "Sprint To Customer: "Are You Nucking Futs?"", the supervisors found the person and they have been fired. Thanks for the heads up! there's no way it would have ever been found.benpopken: Ha, sweet, which company is that?
Jessica: It's called InQ. "Jessica" (we're all "Jessica") is a real person, every time. no auto-responses, just scripts. But that person just was really new and apparently didn't "get it". I've been working there for about 6 months, and that's the first time I've seen something like that.
benpopken: How did the company track down which "Jessica" it was? More »
Get Free Sprint Features With URL Hacking
Two more instances of Sprint's insecure online system:
1) Members of the Howards Forums cellphone message boards have discovered a URL hack that lets users add the "Unlimited Shared Night & Weekend Minutes at 5pm pack" for free to their account.
2) If you take this URL and replace the phone# at the end with the phone number of someone who hasn't set up the PIN on their account, you will see the last 4 digits of their social security number. Not a huge deal, we give out the last 4 of our social over the phone all the time, but it seems a bit odd to broadcast these numbers unnecessarily.
PREVIOUSLY: Flawed Sprint Security Worse Than We Thought
Flawed Security Lets Sprint Accounts Get Easily Hijacked
Sprint To Customer: "Are You Nucking Futs?"
Reader Pam asked Jessica if she could port her landline to her mobile account, prompting the Sprint CSR to respond: "No, are you nucking futz?" Pam wasn't expecting an abusive chat when she visited Sprint's website to research a potential contract extension, but Jessica unexpectedly appeared with advice that wasn't just rude, but also wrong.
UPDATE: Sprint's "Nucking Futs" "Jessica" Fired
More »Sprint Forces You To Pay $988.00 For A Phone You Never Used
Here's a sad story from reader Kristin: More »Flawed Sprint Security Worse Than We Thought
Flawed Security Lets Sprint Accounts Get Easily Hijacked
At Sprint, Nothing's SIMple
Allison and her husband wanted to reduce the amount of minutes they're signed up for on their Sprint-Nextel cellphone plan. While that was a hassle in of itself and Allison ended up getting a phone with another company, the fun really begins once ""Insert SIM" started flashing on her husband's phone (which is on the Nextel network, which uses SIM cards). Sprint seemed convinced that the SIM card had been reported as lost or stolen and couldn't be activated. This was very bad as it was her husband's business line. What followed were a series of 45+ minute call time waits, disconnected customer service calls, fruitless visits to the store, conflicting and confusing information given by different customer service reps and tech support personnel. During the fracas, her husband lost one customer who hadn't been able to reach him during the outage. Over 100 days into the reign of new Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and shennanigans like the following story are still happening. Oh Danny-boy, are one of the "nukes" you have planned for revamping Sprint aimed at customer service? More »Sprint Twiddles Thumbs While 12-Year Customers Get Scammed For $2,500
Someone hacked this couple's Sprint account, and bought four new phones on it, leaving these 12-year customers to pay over $2,500. Every time they called Sprint, the fraud department said not to worry and that the charges would be off the bill next month, but the disconnect notices kept arriving until Sprint shut off their phone. Only after a local consumer reporter got involved was the problem solved. When asked why it took so long, Sprint said, "it takes a while to complete a thorough investigation." If you're a legacy Nextel customer now with Sprint, you may want to ask about getting a PIN set up on your account. The account seemed to have been targeted (the fraud department said probably by someone inside Sprint) because it was an old Nextel account that didn't have a PIN.
Sprint charges customer $2,500 [Journal Inquirer] (Thanks to Brian!)







