By ZEINAB NAJM
Sunday Times Newspapers
RIVERVIEW — A woman filed a fraud report Dec. 7 after receiving a phone call from a phone number claiming to be Sprint customer service inquiring about two new phone lines being added to a phone plan.
She told the caller that she had not ordered two new phones for two new lines on her account, and was told she would be emailed a shipping label to return the phones to a warehouse in Texas. The woman’s husband received two gray iPhone 13 Pros valued at $2,126 in total from “Sprint,” and she received an email from an AOL address with a return label to an address to Miami.
According to the report, the phones were dropped off at the post office in Riverview but no return label was obtained at that time. “Sprint” did not receive the phones from the Postal Service and were unable to determine the iPhones’ location at the time the report was filed.
The lines and charges for the phones were removed from the woman’s account.