On Nov 24, 8:02 am, George <geo...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> jl wrote:
>
> > Someone in my family, a saboteur, got my SSN and ported my number to
> > AT&T without my knowledge or consent. It took me days and days and
> > threats and threats of lawsuits to get the number back. All Verizon
> > needed to have done to have prevented that nuisance which destroyed my
> > use of a cellphone for over a week was to have called me to confirm.
> > They did not. They sure as hell can call anytime day or night
> > promoting some new service or spam me with e-mail when they want to
> > dig deeper into my pocket.
>
> Good story, but after porting a number of lines in different directions
> with different carriers you always get a call which you have to
> acknowledge when the port is ready.

You're saying *I* got such a call? I most certainly did not, and I
would have expected the courtesy of Verizon to inform me my number was
being ported, since I had paid them religiously on my contract and
been a loyal customer for two years and several months on a month-to-
month basis.