Is My Friend A Criminal!?

[Kenji4861]

My friend keeps offering me this phone from Verizon and he says he works for some company so it's all legit.
He's offering me the Motorola V60 with any service plan I want. This phone goes for $250 in the store, but he's giving it to me for free.
He said if I get people to come to him, he'll pay me $15 for each person. What the heck?! He keeps saying he just works for a company, but this just sounds too weird. Anyone have any idea how this is being done?

 

[PsychoAndy]

Maybe. But worst comes to worst, they take the phone away if he gets caught. Or something.

 

[SuperTool]

can I have your friend's deal?

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
can I have your friend's deal?

What about a nokia 8265?

 

[MrCodeDude]

If he works for Verizon and you know him in real life, yeah, my friend's dad works at AT&T and he got 6 Nokia cell phones with the unlimited plan for free. It was like a family plan though. So, he might just have an extra phone with service.
-- mrcodedude

 

[StattlichPassat]

Ask for a detailed explanation- you deserve to know. It could very well be ok and legit, as cellular service is one of those industries that has a lot of markup on a product (the service anyway) that can be expendable.

 

[MikeO]

He's your friend and you don't even know where he works? WTH... do you happen you mean some stranger you "know" from the 'net?

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

The thing about Verizon is that you can bring any compatible from the street and have it activated there. From what I understand, you can't do that at SprintPCS (they want you to buy their phones).

 

[txgixer]

my friend and his friend used to run a cell store

they alwas gave me all kinds of deals and upgrades

they are now both sitting in federal prison for cloning cell phones and DSS setups . . . :Q

i would be a little wary of it, investigate you should