I should find this shockingly disturbing however for some reason I’m not the least bit surprised. That “some reason” is because the people providing the means to jack someone’s cell number is none other than our friends at AT&T.

Think of someone you really hate … now hope they use AT&T so you can steal their mobile number, then lock their account. From this point on, we’ll refer to this person as “the sucker”.

All you need is a business account with AT&T. Sure, to get a business account you will need to give them your federal tax id number and undergo a credit check but that’s not really a big deal. Once you have an AT&T business account, you can take over the sucker’s personal AT&T number without their prior permission or knowledge. The only two pieces of information you will need to know is their mobile number and their name. Real tough to get I know.

How to do the deed:

  1. Call AT&T’s business line (Assuming you can stomach calling AT&T in the first place)
  2. Tell them you want to transfer a personal account/number to your business account
  3. Give them the super secret information (the sucker’s name and mobile number)
  4. Answer whatever questions they have about rate plans, etc.
  5. That’s it! You’re done.

 

Now within a short period of time, the sucker’s mobile number will be transferred to your business account. AT&T will not make any attempt to verify this request with the sucker. Once the number is on your business account, you have full control over the sucker.

Sounds impossible, right? I’ve done this now with three different employees of ours over the past week. In my case, I told two of them what I was doing but I didn’t have to verify anything with AT&T. The third employee I simply forgot to tell him I was going to transfer his mobile number to our corporate account. When the transfer was done and I informed him, he was shocked and upset that it went through without his permission. I was as well. So I called AT&T business and they told me that business accounts do NOT require verification from the personal user to transfer the account.

INSANE!