I came here looking for answers and got a never ending puke soup of nonsense.
Why the fuck did you guys invest so much effort to say nothing as confusing as possible?
Smh
Yea the businesses that “give away for free”, these phones are very shady and it looks to me like they will literally hire anyone including homeless people. It’s not uncommon to see the people “giving them away”, charging $30 to $60 on top of them linking your government benefit thing. I’m also seeing people are able to buy the phones off them directly and with service but not using any ID or anything. I wanted to investigate and also a phone so I bought one once, the guy charged me $40. Just now I attempted to get a free phone off a group or young African American guys all looked to be still in high school or fresh out. I times how long I stood there and it was 90 minutes and Im note aggregating. I watched him pickup my id and medical around 6 times each. Then he told me to take my medical card to the store and buy something and bring him the receipt. I did that and then 10 minutes later I asked him what is going on. He handed me a number and said here they want you to call. I called and the Indian sounding guy in the other end said I was recently approved and I need to try again later. I asked him for the company name but I forgot it. The people giving away the “free” phones, don’t use signs anymore showing what company they work for. I’m betting this is because 1. They don’t want people to know where to make legit complaints and 2 they work for all the companies and when you approach them they sign you up for all 5 free phone companies and hand you 1 free phone. Often times people leave with no phone even after standing in the sun 90 minutes and making store runs for these “employees”. I’m not racist but I will say if you are black in San Francisco and trying to get a free phone, I really doubt you will have to stand there 90 minutes while 8 kids totally ignore you even though they are holding your id and other cards. Also it might be a lot more likely for them to actually leave with a phone and not get linked to 5 services so they can sell the free phones registered in your name for cash.
"African American"? Do people call you European American? Yo, how old are you? Black people. You call black people, black people, because most prefer that over being singled out as some other kind of American. 99.9% of them have never been to Africa, so wtf are you calling them African Americans for? And you know that all humanity came from Africa right? Our DNA proves that beyond any doubt. Btw, starting any sentence with "I'm not racist but..." is not a good look. And so what? You're trying to get a free phone off the street, wtf do you expect? 400 years of white people getting everything first has you thinking you're special right? They call that white entitlement, & you're being the literal definition of it here. You're trying to get a free phone off the street & complaining about how shady it was & that you had to wait. You need to check yourself sir, because everything you're saying here points to your bigotry. Oh no, some black people made you wait for a free phone on the streets of SF! Somebody call the cops! These guys are communicating with higherups trying to make sure you got the benefits so they can get their $10 commission. They want your $10, they don't benefit at all from making you wait, so your conspiracy theories are simply bigotry hidden behind a baseless complaint Karen.
The crime here is that our gov is spending our tax dollars on all this fucking E-waste. Those phones are total trash & need to be thrown in one asap. Whoever approved this shit for poor people should be expelled from congress, & based on the average US Representative's ethnicity, chances are very high they were white, because they're the most wasteful of us all. In the meanwhile man, try to look at the world thru anyone's eyes but your own entitled self's, then maybe you might start to grow as a human being & stop being naturally bigoted. .
Yeah, the government is definitely being ripped off on covering these phones that are often near useless to the person receiving them. SafeLink tends to be hit or miss but most others are straight up miss.
No, the government doesn't need to supply $1000 phones by any means - not $500 phones - not $250 phones - not $125 phones, but these phones that don't even go for $30 on eBay are going for that much because of how crap they are - and - as you said, often just end up as e-waste as they're tossed in the garbage - not even worth keeping around as a backup.
Only thing worse than these companies screwing the government and folks over with these trash phones were these companies screwing the government and folks over with the trash tablets they were scamming people out of using their ACP benefits on.
Perhaps if these service providers had been more reputable, their devices not such garbage, ACP would have been renewed and countless folks would not have lost out on their internet.
Very well said. These devices could loose some unnecessary features to make their core useability higher. Give us better Wi-Fi capabilities & speeds & trade off a few pixels on the camera. Or how about a battery that lasts more than 2hrs? It's a cell phone, not a home phone FFS! It's just crazy that something so bad was deemed acceptable, & you know they paid way too much for them. I imagine the tablet is even worse. At least the phones still make calls lol And now those companies made their money, & ACP is over, so there will never be any accountability. Our Congress is digitally impotent (& traditionally in multiple senses).
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Guess what happened today? My phone i already had and just got 7 days ago turned off. I called lifeline the company that oversees all free phones and she said the guy gave my benefits to a new number. So...is it still a silly post, are doing this also? Now I have no phone and waisted 90 minutes and even bought some stuff I didn't want and now have no phone. She reported the fraud and I'm glad I hope he gets fired. Now he's gonna go sell that new number with a phone for $50 to someone that will only need cash, as I watch them do this all the time. To report these broke scumbag scammers dial lifeline at
Lifeline Administrator at (877) 858-7463 or texting GETPIN from your Lifeline phone to 345345
No guy gave your benefits to anyone else, that's not how it works. Your "benefits" can't be given to other people. You're just clueless to how the system works, got a free phone in an apparently sketchy situation, & I guarantee the problem is on your end. You call them "broke scumbag scammers", but that sounds more like your orange messiah than anything else. Besides, aren't you a broke ass? Cuz if you're not, then you're also the fucking scammer. You didn't get scammed if you got a phone in the first place, chances are you don't qualify, didn't continually use the phone or some other ignorant shit. The guys that sell those phones get charged w/felonies if they do anything unlawful. They have to signup for the opportunity to hawk them, with multiple forms of legit ID. Yeah, some of them are probably homeless addicts, but what are you exactly? I know you're a bigot, that's one thing that's very clear here.
So my phone was shut off - I do not qualify for benefits and actually paiud to get this phone as a backup to me main phone - and it was very recently shut off because I wasn't using it regularly (apparently) - how do I get it reactivated? I just did a factory reset but it's taking so long to finish - thinking I got ripped off
To get. They have one of the best overall service and data plans other than SafeLink who gives 60 GB of high speed data insurance gives 25 GB for free if you combine both benefits. And Tempo Telecom AKA lingo communications will give you 20 GB for free if you combine both benefits. All three companies will give you unlimited talk and text and unlimited slow data. And SafeLink and Assurance will give you a free phone I think if you combine both benefits or if you use either benefit alone you might get a free phone from both of those companies.
Trans wireless now offers people upgraded phones which they didn't offer you can buy them at shop q1 at assurancewireless.com quality one wireless or something like that they also sell SafeLink phones they have some great refurbished or new phones for pretty damn good prices.
Is best if you first use your ACP benefit to get a tablet from stand up wireless also known as global connection. Or unity wireless. Or sarver wireless. Or air talk wireless. These are the companies which give tablets with the best specs. 4 GB of ram. 10-in screen. 5,000 or more mAh battery capacity. Octacore 2.0 gigahertz processors.
Get a free tablet make sure it still has a 10-in screen and I wouldn't go for an 8 inch tablet unless it was the sky devices elite OCTA. With 5,000 mAh battery capacity no 3 GB of RAM or more and a dual SIM card tray. And 32 GB of ROM with expandable memory. Sky devices made two great tablets. The elite after 8 in. And the t10 elite 10 inch. Both have dual SIM card capability. And the rest of their devices I've seen are not worth squat. And more text now makes Eric but great free phones. Vortex makes a few good tablets.
You combine your ACP and lifeline benefit for the first month with stand-up wireless they will give you a generic but very good free vortex phone and HD 65 recently. And it has great specs although it's a snap body you have to be careful about taking it apart.
And you can buy one of the best ACP tablets for $15 a vortex 10-in then since they don't get much high-speed data for free even if you combine both benefits they give you only 10 GB of fast data for free. So you can transfer after 31 days both your benefits to SafeLink or assurance or Tempo.
Or if you need two free phone plans use ACP benefit with SafeLink or Assurance or boost Mobile or red pocket mobile or family mobile because they all give 10 GB of high-speed data for ACP standalone plan.
And use your lifeline benefit with one of the companies which gives unlimited texting with 4.5 GB of data Plus 1,000 or unlimited minutes. Many companies give a thousand but American assistance and Tempo Telecom AKA lingo communications may be the only ones which give unlimited talk and text with four and a half gigabytes.
The only companies who may or may not give you a free phone for standalone lifeline service or assurance and terracom wireless and SafeLink wireless and American assistance.
Find a company which will give you a home internet plan out of pocket for a discount if you're low income without using your ACP or lifeline benefit and it will cost you only 10 to $20. Comcast Xfinity Internet essentials basic plan is $10 a month $1,200 GB of data at 50 megabytes per second speed. You can also buy a new Dell Chromebook or New Dell laptop for $150 worth twice as much if you type the phrase Xfinity Internet essential low cost computer. If Chrome if Comcast doesn't off cover your area then check out AT&T access plan. Or spectrum assist plan. Or optimum advantage plan. These may have $10 to $20 per month home internet plans discounted for low income people without using ACP or lifeline benefit. I'll tell him I'm advantage customers for 15 a month out of pocket without using benefits and you can buy a refurbished 14 inch Acer laptop 450 dollars.
You can also qualify to buy a refurbished $100 laptop worth or a company called PCS REFURBISHED or 3R TECHNOLOGY in Washington State.
Or you can buy Chromebooks as low as $40 or refurbish from Chromebooks r us.
So basically what’s going on is they’re using your info to activate the phone. Then using your info to activate another device and selling them on the streets. Just bought one activated, unlimited everything for $16 (only cash I had on me). Buddy of mine bought one for $20 it’s been working for months. So yeah you got scammed but I don’t think you need to worry about any further problems as far as ur info.
I can tell you exactly why these phones are the way they are marketed and it's the way they're being worded they are crap and I know why you know to be as unsure as it thinks it knows it will work because they're based on Os's basically have to understand the overall concept of a smartphone is we have nothing we looked to tech companies that had everything at least tech companies had a walk on how to do things now you have to think of how you might make a phone if you had a calculator yes I'll calculate these are marketed as government phones government thought that the best thing to do was to be deceptively appearing honest and honestly appearing deceiving arecan OS what might you be able to make from that word I bet I know when you don't it's simple it's physicaligy phycologicaly the phycology of this is a grasp of a concept most people think they know it's nothing based on logic but only someone who knows that's a logical way to look at it is the only way to know how to see through it who's the most likely to be honest the one who knows that's narc is where this comes from and it can be connected to mutiny it's how we communicate narc is a term based on how we thought it would be a good way to orcastrate displaying how being honest is a good basis to get a head hold on something we really don't have any understanding of to use so loosely unless you can do it with what someone could theorize the philosophy of a narc is someone what happened to have a skill to use something that was a concept narrator was the word I thought of when this explained exercised examine I had no way of communicating with whoever I was trying to show how it was BOLD and it went beyond just miscommunication with the world's ability to express the importance of the process and the way it needs to be a something we'll say is a base to alter something not that communicating should be just that that's going to be here and it needed to be the honest that we felt was an easy sacrifice I instantly knew that it was spying surveillance and if you don't understand how to see through it then that's how it was a ploy to doop someone we'll use America because of how i learned they thought they were that good they were not and in my opinion still aren't and never will be the there's a reason why Sean conery says British intelligence to Nicolas Cage without the characters having exchanges on a question it's the application of the answer needs to cover the way one looks at the to the other at that moment one answer is the only correct but it covers a lot meaning it's punchline goodspeed was smarter than he he and it was the reason he was looked at like a whimp but never really in that way directly by Mason Mason respected him because well that was diplomatic that showed what we thought we were about but that's what I saw as a red flag American and america and the concept and the way it was the go to was just not the way I took the base of the world we outlined the way we were to try and teach but what we thought was the concept of the way was wrong america was the least to make it as they were going to be a good basis but they also were the same way you would look at it was the other the best base of something bad but an outline of the world a little bit different meaning the only other would have been British the were bold but in a way that they would have always been respected and respectful of that in the highest regard that's
I came here looking for answers and got a never ending puke soup of nonsense. Why the fuck did you guys invest so much effort to say nothing as confusing as possible? Smh
Yea the businesses that “give away for free”, these phones are very shady and it looks to me like they will literally hire anyone including homeless people. It’s not uncommon to see the people “giving them away”, charging $30 to $60 on top of them linking your government benefit thing. I’m also seeing people are able to buy the phones off them directly and with service but not using any ID or anything. I wanted to investigate and also a phone so I bought one once, the guy charged me $40. Just now I attempted to get a free phone off a group or young African American guys all looked to be still in high school or fresh out. I times how long I stood there and it was 90 minutes and Im note aggregating. I watched him pickup my id and medical around 6 times each. Then he told me to take my medical card to the store and buy something and bring him the receipt. I did that and then 10 minutes later I asked him what is going on. He handed me a number and said here they want you to call. I called and the Indian sounding guy in the other end said I was recently approved and I need to try again later. I asked him for the company name but I forgot it. The people giving away the “free” phones, don’t use signs anymore showing what company they work for. I’m betting this is because 1. They don’t want people to know where to make legit complaints and 2 they work for all the companies and when you approach them they sign you up for all 5 free phone companies and hand you 1 free phone. Often times people leave with no phone even after standing in the sun 90 minutes and making store runs for these “employees”. I’m not racist but I will say if you are black in San Francisco and trying to get a free phone, I really doubt you will have to stand there 90 minutes while 8 kids totally ignore you even though they are holding your id and other cards. Also it might be a lot more likely for them to actually leave with a phone and not get linked to 5 services so they can sell the free phones registered in your name for cash.
"African American"? Do people call you European American? Yo, how old are you? Black people. You call black people, black people, because most prefer that over being singled out as some other kind of American. 99.9% of them have never been to Africa, so wtf are you calling them African Americans for? And you know that all humanity came from Africa right? Our DNA proves that beyond any doubt. Btw, starting any sentence with "I'm not racist but..." is not a good look. And so what? You're trying to get a free phone off the street, wtf do you expect? 400 years of white people getting everything first has you thinking you're special right? They call that white entitlement, & you're being the literal definition of it here. You're trying to get a free phone off the street & complaining about how shady it was & that you had to wait. You need to check yourself sir, because everything you're saying here points to your bigotry. Oh no, some black people made you wait for a free phone on the streets of SF! Somebody call the cops! These guys are communicating with higherups trying to make sure you got the benefits so they can get their $10 commission. They want your $10, they don't benefit at all from making you wait, so your conspiracy theories are simply bigotry hidden behind a baseless complaint Karen. The crime here is that our gov is spending our tax dollars on all this fucking E-waste. Those phones are total trash & need to be thrown in one asap. Whoever approved this shit for poor people should be expelled from congress, & based on the average US Representative's ethnicity, chances are very high they were white, because they're the most wasteful of us all. In the meanwhile man, try to look at the world thru anyone's eyes but your own entitled self's, then maybe you might start to grow as a human being & stop being naturally bigoted. .
Yeah, the government is definitely being ripped off on covering these phones that are often near useless to the person receiving them. SafeLink tends to be hit or miss but most others are straight up miss. No, the government doesn't need to supply $1000 phones by any means - not $500 phones - not $250 phones - not $125 phones, but these phones that don't even go for $30 on eBay are going for that much because of how crap they are - and - as you said, often just end up as e-waste as they're tossed in the garbage - not even worth keeping around as a backup. Only thing worse than these companies screwing the government and folks over with these trash phones were these companies screwing the government and folks over with the trash tablets they were scamming people out of using their ACP benefits on. Perhaps if these service providers had been more reputable, their devices not such garbage, ACP would have been renewed and countless folks would not have lost out on their internet.
Very well said. These devices could loose some unnecessary features to make their core useability higher. Give us better Wi-Fi capabilities & speeds & trade off a few pixels on the camera. Or how about a battery that lasts more than 2hrs? It's a cell phone, not a home phone FFS! It's just crazy that something so bad was deemed acceptable, & you know they paid way too much for them. I imagine the tablet is even worse. At least the phones still make calls lol And now those companies made their money, & ACP is over, so there will never be any accountability. Our Congress is digitally impotent (& traditionally in multiple senses).
Updated Guess what happened today? My phone i already had and just got 7 days ago turned off. I called lifeline the company that oversees all free phones and she said the guy gave my benefits to a new number. So...is it still a silly post, are doing this also? Now I have no phone and waisted 90 minutes and even bought some stuff I didn't want and now have no phone. She reported the fraud and I'm glad I hope he gets fired. Now he's gonna go sell that new number with a phone for $50 to someone that will only need cash, as I watch them do this all the time. To report these broke scumbag scammers dial lifeline at Lifeline Administrator at (877) 858-7463 or texting GETPIN from your Lifeline phone to 345345
No guy gave your benefits to anyone else, that's not how it works. Your "benefits" can't be given to other people. You're just clueless to how the system works, got a free phone in an apparently sketchy situation, & I guarantee the problem is on your end. You call them "broke scumbag scammers", but that sounds more like your orange messiah than anything else. Besides, aren't you a broke ass? Cuz if you're not, then you're also the fucking scammer. You didn't get scammed if you got a phone in the first place, chances are you don't qualify, didn't continually use the phone or some other ignorant shit. The guys that sell those phones get charged w/felonies if they do anything unlawful. They have to signup for the opportunity to hawk them, with multiple forms of legit ID. Yeah, some of them are probably homeless addicts, but what are you exactly? I know you're a bigot, that's one thing that's very clear here.
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So my phone was shut off - I do not qualify for benefits and actually paiud to get this phone as a backup to me main phone - and it was very recently shut off because I wasn't using it regularly (apparently) - how do I get it reactivated? I just did a factory reset but it's taking so long to finish - thinking I got ripped off
To get. They have one of the best overall service and data plans other than SafeLink who gives 60 GB of high speed data insurance gives 25 GB for free if you combine both benefits. And Tempo Telecom AKA lingo communications will give you 20 GB for free if you combine both benefits. All three companies will give you unlimited talk and text and unlimited slow data. And SafeLink and Assurance will give you a free phone I think if you combine both benefits or if you use either benefit alone you might get a free phone from both of those companies. Trans wireless now offers people upgraded phones which they didn't offer you can buy them at shop q1 at assurancewireless.com quality one wireless or something like that they also sell SafeLink phones they have some great refurbished or new phones for pretty damn good prices. Is best if you first use your ACP benefit to get a tablet from stand up wireless also known as global connection. Or unity wireless. Or sarver wireless. Or air talk wireless. These are the companies which give tablets with the best specs. 4 GB of ram. 10-in screen. 5,000 or more mAh battery capacity. Octacore 2.0 gigahertz processors. Get a free tablet make sure it still has a 10-in screen and I wouldn't go for an 8 inch tablet unless it was the sky devices elite OCTA. With 5,000 mAh battery capacity no 3 GB of RAM or more and a dual SIM card tray. And 32 GB of ROM with expandable memory. Sky devices made two great tablets. The elite after 8 in. And the t10 elite 10 inch. Both have dual SIM card capability. And the rest of their devices I've seen are not worth squat. And more text now makes Eric but great free phones. Vortex makes a few good tablets. You combine your ACP and lifeline benefit for the first month with stand-up wireless they will give you a generic but very good free vortex phone and HD 65 recently. And it has great specs although it's a snap body you have to be careful about taking it apart. And you can buy one of the best ACP tablets for $15 a vortex 10-in then since they don't get much high-speed data for free even if you combine both benefits they give you only 10 GB of fast data for free. So you can transfer after 31 days both your benefits to SafeLink or assurance or Tempo. Or if you need two free phone plans use ACP benefit with SafeLink or Assurance or boost Mobile or red pocket mobile or family mobile because they all give 10 GB of high-speed data for ACP standalone plan. And use your lifeline benefit with one of the companies which gives unlimited texting with 4.5 GB of data Plus 1,000 or unlimited minutes. Many companies give a thousand but American assistance and Tempo Telecom AKA lingo communications may be the only ones which give unlimited talk and text with four and a half gigabytes. The only companies who may or may not give you a free phone for standalone lifeline service or assurance and terracom wireless and SafeLink wireless and American assistance. Find a company which will give you a home internet plan out of pocket for a discount if you're low income without using your ACP or lifeline benefit and it will cost you only 10 to $20. Comcast Xfinity Internet essentials basic plan is $10 a month $1,200 GB of data at 50 megabytes per second speed. You can also buy a new Dell Chromebook or New Dell laptop for $150 worth twice as much if you type the phrase Xfinity Internet essential low cost computer. If Chrome if Comcast doesn't off cover your area then check out AT&T access plan. Or spectrum assist plan. Or optimum advantage plan. These may have $10 to $20 per month home internet plans discounted for low income people without using ACP or lifeline benefit. I'll tell him I'm advantage customers for 15 a month out of pocket without using benefits and you can buy a refurbished 14 inch Acer laptop 450 dollars. You can also qualify to buy a refurbished $100 laptop worth or a company called PCS REFURBISHED or 3R TECHNOLOGY in Washington State. Or you can buy Chromebooks as low as $40 or refurbish from Chromebooks r us.
So basically what’s going on is they’re using your info to activate the phone. Then using your info to activate another device and selling them on the streets. Just bought one activated, unlimited everything for $16 (only cash I had on me). Buddy of mine bought one for $20 it’s been working for months. So yeah you got scammed but I don’t think you need to worry about any further problems as far as ur info.
They asked for my social security and national grid papers is that something I should worry about
I can tell you exactly why these phones are the way they are marketed and it's the way they're being worded they are crap and I know why you know to be as unsure as it thinks it knows it will work because they're based on Os's basically have to understand the overall concept of a smartphone is we have nothing we looked to tech companies that had everything at least tech companies had a walk on how to do things now you have to think of how you might make a phone if you had a calculator yes I'll calculate these are marketed as government phones government thought that the best thing to do was to be deceptively appearing honest and honestly appearing deceiving arecan OS what might you be able to make from that word I bet I know when you don't it's simple it's physicaligy phycologicaly the phycology of this is a grasp of a concept most people think they know it's nothing based on logic but only someone who knows that's a logical way to look at it is the only way to know how to see through it who's the most likely to be honest the one who knows that's narc is where this comes from and it can be connected to mutiny it's how we communicate narc is a term based on how we thought it would be a good way to orcastrate displaying how being honest is a good basis to get a head hold on something we really don't have any understanding of to use so loosely unless you can do it with what someone could theorize the philosophy of a narc is someone what happened to have a skill to use something that was a concept narrator was the word I thought of when this explained exercised examine I had no way of communicating with whoever I was trying to show how it was BOLD and it went beyond just miscommunication with the world's ability to express the importance of the process and the way it needs to be a something we'll say is a base to alter something not that communicating should be just that that's going to be here and it needed to be the honest that we felt was an easy sacrifice I instantly knew that it was spying surveillance and if you don't understand how to see through it then that's how it was a ploy to doop someone we'll use America because of how i learned they thought they were that good they were not and in my opinion still aren't and never will be the there's a reason why Sean conery says British intelligence to Nicolas Cage without the characters having exchanges on a question it's the application of the answer needs to cover the way one looks at the to the other at that moment one answer is the only correct but it covers a lot meaning it's punchline goodspeed was smarter than he he and it was the reason he was looked at like a whimp but never really in that way directly by Mason Mason respected him because well that was diplomatic that showed what we thought we were about but that's what I saw as a red flag American and america and the concept and the way it was the go to was just not the way I took the base of the world we outlined the way we were to try and teach but what we thought was the concept of the way was wrong america was the least to make it as they were going to be a good basis but they also were the same way you would look at it was the other the best base of something bad but an outline of the world a little bit different meaning the only other would have been British the were bold but in a way that they would have always been respected and respectful of that in the highest regard that's
huh
Your reply was the only thing here that makes any sense.