They have no way of knowing who paid it or what number they were trying to pay on. There's really nothing any of you can do.
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2026
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It's your lucky day, OP. We take those.
I'm always weary of companies trying a bait and switch or scummy techniques. If you didn't notice they might do a negative credit and they will hound you down for payment. I don't trust freebies from companies.
There used to be a popular scam where someone would "accidentally" send money through Apple Pay and they'd demand you to return it, but since their money was actually fraudulent and yours weren't, the fraudulent money given to you will be recalled and the legitimate money you gave to the scammer remains.
I'm a bit confused. They topped up the SIM, but also turned on an unlimited package which (presumably) costs money per month?
If you don't want the unlimited data, seems to me the path forward is to just turn that off. Leave the credit in the account. The support agent never directly implied it wad a cash transaction. If it happened to be credit, and the transaction didn't go to the right phone, then there is likely a charge back already in flight, which may result in that credit being taken back after all.
I would insist that the service terms be restored to what you had before, with no monthly spend above whatever plan you originally had. Just let the credit ride for a few months, if nothing happens to it consider it to be your formal notification to the Universe of "no backsies"....
I disabled auto renewal, but that's all I can do. It was paid for by that stranger for the next month.
Yup, that's the best possible outcome. In the unlikely event the transaction gets reversed, the company has a record of your call and could, possibly, eat the bill instead of sticking you with it.
I wonder if it would make the company more money in the long run for people to forget to turn off unlimited and auto renew than it would cost the company to "oopsie! Someone must have paid for this!" And pay for it the first time in secret as a marketing expense.
Barely costs them anything, I'd bet they're full of shit with the "activated at point of sale" line. We're at a stage of capitalism where legitimate companies are behaving like scammers.
Mate, you should keep auto-renewal on, and go to the media to rat out your provider for knowingly letting you use another customer's payment method. That's one of those consumer segments that makes suburbanites mad.
Pay it forward op, that's how this works
Any chance it's someone who knows you doing something nice for you?
No.
I read this as "No way. I'm a piece of crap and no one I know would ever do anything nice for me." 🤣
No. Divine intervention isn't real
If it’s divine, then your god must have a very specific project for you. So get started!
My guess they added it to the wrong number, wait until the end of the billing cycle and see if it gets turned off.
I already disabled auto-renewal, there's nothing to turn off anymore. There's no contract, it's just a monthly "package" that auto-renews by default.