{"id":15002,"date":"2012-02-01T10:17:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=15002"},"modified":"2024-01-13T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T15:19:04","slug":"the-core-of-my-problem-with-apple-customer-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/02\/the-core-of-my-problem-with-apple-customer-support\/","title":{"rendered":"The Core of my Problem with Apple Customer Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The other day, I received an email from Apple letting me know that there had been a purchase (using my Apple ID) made on an unauthorized device.  “Okay, fine” I say to myself, “I will take their advice and change my password.” But I can’t. Close inspection of the email shows that  the Apple ID listed is… not mine.  Its a mismash of letters and numbers, ending in @lvvl.info.  Alarm bells and whistles go off in my head.  This is a big barrel of NOT GOOD.  I do some mad Googling and discover this site<\/a>. <\/span>Turns out that there is a known issue with security with non-credit card payments.  It turns out that if you use Pay Pal or have a gift card balance, it makes it easier for a hacker to take over your account, change your username and password and buy apps.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then go to Apple’s help site.  The site suggests that for my issue, I use their ‘Express Lane’ email support service.  I fire off an email.  Then I notice that it will take up to 24 hours for a response. <\/span>No.  I’m sorry, but Express is not ‘up to’ 24 hours.  Especially when it deals with my account being hacked.  So, with the help of <\/span>jacobnorton<\/a> and <\/span>uraifenn<\/a> I got some phone numbers and started dialing.<\/span> This is where I started have a problem with Apple Customer Service.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first called around 0700, EST.  The automated voice told me that no one was in.  Ok, no problem, I know its early. I go through the prompts and the voice informs me that it can’t help and that I should call back during operating hours.  Then the line goes dead.  I got a bit upset here as most places will have a message indicating the hours that you can speak to a human.  No such thing here.  I then call every 15 minutes until <\/span>0803 EST.  I give the required information to the automated voice who then transfers me.  I give the same information to the first human I speak to.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point I’m starting to reach a low boil.  I explain to him the issue that my account has been <\/span>compromised: <\/span><\/strong>the information I entrusted to you has been stolen from you through no fault of my own<\/em>.  He then transfers me to Human number 2 who proceeds to ask for the same information I just gave the last person and<\/em> the automated system.  You mean to tell me that at no point the first two entries of my information were recorded and passed on?  Pretty lazy in my opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s where I (admittedly) lose my cool.  I tell Human number 2 the issue, that I was a victim of a known<\/em> issue, my accounts been hacked and I want this fixed.  He goes off line to see what he can do.  He comes back 15 minutes later and says that nope, iTunes support is email or online chat only.  Excuse me?  My account and personal information has been compromised and taken over and all you can do is email? It took you 15 minutes to figure this out?   No.  I gave this poor soul some rather salty language.  I ask him questions like: ‘So, they can sit in front of a computer and type, but not pick up a phone?’  He did not have an answer for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around lunch time,  I get an email from the Apple iTunes support saying that they have reset my account information.  The also refunded me the money stolen, so that’s nice. <\/span>I decided to send along an email to the iTunes support person who assisted me.  I just wanted to know what Apple was going to do about this known issue.  Surprisingly, I got a response.  Unsurprisingly, the email was just standard boiler plate about how to better protect my account.  Sigh.  I responded to that second email with the information I uncovered, but I’m not expecting any further response.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, I’m glad that I was able to get my account fixed, and the money refunded. \u00a0However, I am still upset that a customer who was calling about a compromised account was brushed off so easily. \u00a0Will this stop me from using Apple products? \u00a0No. \u00a0I guess I just expected better.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple Account Hacked! My nightmarish customer service battle & surprising outcome. Pay what you want, but is your Apple ID secure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":15089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[646],"class_list":["post-15002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/angryphone.jpg?fit=2178%2C2162&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelghY-3TY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15002"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23239,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15002\/revisions\/23239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}