Telecom falsely flags owned phone as stolen with no appeal path
AT&T suspended service on a legitimately purchased phone by placing it on a fraud blocklist, despite the customer possessing the device. After eight days of daily calls, multiple department transfers, and a filed fraud case, AT&T declined the appeal with no explanation. Customers have no independent escalation mechanism when telecom fraud systems produce false positives.
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