Got scammed into a 24month contract

Uli

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Mtn customer care scammed myself and my wife into taking 24month sim only contract as they said they unable to process a package migration over the phone however they able to cancel your sim and able to give 24month contracts out over the phone.
We were told we had to go into a shop to do a package migration. Since we currently working overseas this was not an option.
I have numerous times previously changed migrated my package to different packages we on month to month packages.
Bunch of scammers!
 
So how did they do it? Call you up, "Hello dear" and told you about a 10,000 free minutes they can give you but they need a 24 month contract first to phone the retention department with?
 
My wife tried to cancel an internet dongle telephonically, it ended up getting renewed... that being said, we've had use for it during load-shedding and when our main internet has been out.

Don't think it was directly with MTN though, but one of their affiliates or whatever they call themselves.
 
I managed to keep a call centre agent on the phone for a little over 6 minutes recently before she gave up trying to get me to provide personal information in an attempt to 'upgrade' my long finished contract.
 
Mtn customer care scammed myself and my wife into taking 24month sim only contract as they said they unable to process a package migration over the phone however they able to cancel your sim and able to give 24month contracts out over the phone.
We were told we had to go into a shop to do a package migration. Since we currently working overseas this was not an option.
I have numerous times previously changed migrated my package to different packages we on month to month packages.
Bunch of scammers!

Pending when you did this you should still have time to cancel.

Additionally use this handy list of emails, explain the problem politely, with plenty of detail, more often then not you should get sorted.

Role: Rapid Response Unit Specialist
Sphelele Shange
Sphelele.Shange @ mtn.com


Role: Public Relations - Specialist
Mthokozisi Ndlovu
Mthokozisi.Ndlovu @ mtn.com


Group Email address
ComplaintsManagement.za @ mtn.com

Rapid Response Unit(I think)
Nonzuzo.Sefolo @ mtn.com
BillieJean.Peters @ mtn.com
Kevin.Steeneveld @ mtn.com
Natasha.Abed @ mtn.com
Sheila.Naidoo @ mtn.com



Executive Assistant
Rehana.Ismail @ mtn.com

For further escalation of logged calls
ExecutiveComplaint.Escalations @ mtn.com
 
3 days before black friday, MTN calls me and offers me a terrible change on my package. Im about 10 months into my contract with them at that point.
On black friday I go into a store and they say they cant migrate me to the black friday deal because of my contract being mid way through.
I ask how was it possible for the telephone staff to offer me something 3 days ago and now on black friday the store cant... they dont know.
Also in the first 5 months of my renewal, MTN doubled the call rate cost and increased the contract price, despite them having special for the same product for cheaper at the exact same time.
If their network wasnt as good as it is, I would have left ages ago.
 
Pending when you did this you should still have time to cancel.

Additionally use this handy list of emails, explain the problem politely, with plenty of detail, more often then not you should get sorted.

Role: Rapid Response Unit Specialist
Sphelele Shange
Sphelele.Shange @ mtn.com


Role: Public Relations - Specialist
Mthokozisi Ndlovu
Mthokozisi.Ndlovu @ mtn.com


Group Email address
ComplaintsManagement.za @ mtn.com

Rapid Response Unit(I think)
Nonzuzo.Sefolo @ mtn.com
BillieJean.Peters @ mtn.com
Kevin.Steeneveld @ mtn.com
Natasha.Abed @ mtn.com
Sheila.Naidoo @ mtn.com



Executive Assistant
Rehana.Ismail @ mtn.com

For further escalation of logged calls
ExecutiveComplaint.Escalations @ mtn.com
Hey you seem to have some knowledge of who to ask to sort things out at MTN. I've been battling since the 6th of March after an upgrade was offered on my two numbers. They loaded one correctly but the other one is completely wrong. I have phoned and emailed and nobody gives a toss. They ALWAYS take more than 4 days to get back to me so it's taking forever.

Do you have any idea if retentions have an email address? One of the agents gave me an email but it doesn't exist. I have the guys name and a recording of the telephone conversations.
 
Hey you seem to have some knowledge of who to ask to sort things out at MTN. I've been battling since the 6th of March after an upgrade was offered on my two numbers. They loaded one correctly but the other one is completely wrong. I have phoned and emailed and nobody gives a toss. They ALWAYS take more than 4 days to get back to me so it's taking forever.

Do you have any idea if retentions have an email address? One of the agents gave me an email but it doesn't exist. I have the guys name and a recording of the telephone conversations.

lol I know my way around complaints and their systems.I will say you have to follow formal channels first going in straight for the kill isn't going to work.

Replies are delayed during the lockdown and should improve at some point.So use the twitter channels and Facebook channels to request escalation, add as much detail as well as an email address.Also request a escalation or service request number, also use their formal channel email it is on the website client services one.

If you send and email to the normal channel email address you automatically get a service request number for a logged call.

Wait at least 72 hours then send a follow email, contact them on both Facebook and twitter and state and call logged numbers as well as the initial date when you made contact.If things still don't get sorted, quite often they close calls without fixing any thing, let it intentionally happen.The more calls are logged and close and paper trail is there the more likely you will be assistance from upper management.

Escalation management rarely get involved, generally calls go as far as escalation staff an supervisor.

Usually at 10- 12 days in you have enough ammo and evidence how inept their staff is and then pull out the big guns.
Some where I made a post in the mtn black Friday thread in 2018, there is a list of email addresses of all the upper management including the CEO and his assistant as of last month all those emails still worked including the CEO.

Send a new email mention time, dates , ref number, copy all emails previously sent.Always be polite and straight to the point, the more aggressive, annoyed and abrasive you are towards staff the less likely you will get help.

Sit back, enjoy the show, shouldn't take along to have a matter resolved, just requires a little patience and following procedure.
 
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