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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Anna Tims

O2 was tricked into transferring my number to fraudsters. Could I have it back?

Someone's hand holding a phone in front of an o@ logo.
Criminals get other people’s numbers ported to a new sim card in order to see security codes sent from banks and others. Photograph: True Images/Alamy

What some O2 customers may have wanted for Christmas was a phone number, since long-cherished ones have had a habit of going astray. Whether they got lucky is another matter, as O2’s customer services can be as hard to pin down as Lord Lucan.

JD’s number was taken from her when fraudsters, pretending be her, tricked O2 into transferring it to a sim they’d acquired from another provider.

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