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9:50 pm EDT

SafeLink Wireless Phones and service. Customer service in particular.

First, they are defrauding low-income people by selling their phones at TWICE the cost of buying them elsewhere, but no matter what THEY say, they WILL NOT activate a phone that you did not buy from them. "Bring your own phone" my *SS! Then I get told I did not buy it from them, when I most certainly did, and that it will not work in my area. They also told me it is NOT an AT&T phone, when I was sitting LOOKING at my order details! Now I have to wait for another freaking SIM kit after I was told elsewhere that customer service is wrong. So, now I wait again. So, I figure I'll configure the phone, only to find it is DANGEROUSLY slow. It does NOT bring up the key code without GREAT difficulty, and it is just so shockingly slow, I've had flip phones that were faster!

Desired outcome: Refund and a prepaid envelope to send their trash back!

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Aug 31, 2021 3:55 am EDT
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The company is scandalous! Lousy customer service. They talk like robots and still cannot perform simple tasks! Leading to true aspiration! They hope you will buy a plan with them, with their overpriced phones. This company is off-shore. And should be dumped! They are a total aggravation to anyone that has to deal with them!

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12:22 am EDT

SafeLink Wireless I'm complaining about my safelink phone that I have not received

I have not been able to use any government phone in at least a year every time I get one somebody screw it up or take my sim card or something and I am afraid they are using them for illegal purposes. My name is Willis Martin Jr. 1318 south 2nd street Temple Texas

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2:48 pm EDT
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SafeLink wireless without taking certain precautions for violating privacy and verifying information accurately to make sure I am the one using the account I mistakenly give my personal information to someone else and they were allowed to make changes to my account without my approval it's in a big problem over the past month especially because I've seen a...

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1:12 pm EDT

SafeLink Wireless Fraudulently signed me up for EBB discount through them which I never authorised

This company has fraudulently added me to the EBB discount through their service which I did not authorise. Upon being authorised for the EBB discount i contacted Verizon who contacted me back today saying the application for the benefit to go through them was denied because it was going through this service group which I never authorised. I received abysmal customer service when I contacted them and no true assistance.

Desired outcome: Reimbursement for EBB discount paid to them that should have gone to desired internet provider

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11:41 am EDT
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SafeLink Wireless Safelink wireless cellular service

Good evening, Safe link charged me $25.00 before mailing out my SIM card. When I called back I was told to get a prepaid phone until I get the SIM card in the mail. I have yet to received it 18 days and no SIM CARD. I have to purchase minutes from Consumer Cellular and I still have them, I have been approved for safe link service. Every time I call them I'm being told something different every time. Please help. How can they attempt to charge me without a safe link SIM CARD, is it possible? At this time I have Consumer Cellular and they will bill me at the end of the month, safe link did not provide me with any service. Please investigate this matter. Thank you. MY name is Yvonne Proctor, [protected]@gmail.com

Desired outcome: I want my service restored as soon as possible and send my SIMCARD like I was promised with my same #[protected].

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12:56 am EDT

SafeLink Wireless Safelink discontinued my service

Safe Link Wireless Discontinued My Service On My Cell Phone And My New Flip Phone Because They Refused To Help Me In Getting My New Flip Phone Activated Which I Paid 80, 00 For Out Of Pocket Safe Link Suspended My Service And Never Gave Me A New Phone Number For My New Flip Phone Safe Link Wireless Knew That My New Flip Phone Needed To Be Activated They Never Called Me Like They Stated I Mailed The New Flip Phone Back For A Refund Then Safe Link Did The Odd Thing By Mailing The New Flip Phone Back To Me. I Was Mortified I Want Safe Link To Reinstate My Account Which I Never Cancelled Safe Link Cancelled My Account With Out My Knowledge I Been With Safe Link For 5 Years And Their Small Government Phones Come In Handy For Us Seniors Safe Link Please Get My Name Back On The Account And Activate My Phone And New Number

Desired outcome: Activation New Phone Number And Be Reinstated New Cell Phone

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1:31 am EDT

SafeLink Wireless Technical support with ebb registration

I am a lifeline client & That makes me eligible for the Emergency Broadband Benefit EBB . There is a TECHINCAL GLICTH W/ The EBB Regristion application. The employees are refusing to correct it This is a GOVERNMENT FUNDING That i am entitled to.i hope im not going to have make a formal complaint. If the Government law say that is what by law iam to get

Desired outcome: GET THE EMERGENCY BROADBAND THAT I AM ENTITLED TO

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5:36 pm EST

SafeLink Wireless new tablets being sent around the world to all safelink members are just for me

told me they where going to send me a free tablet today is may 5 2021 still have not received that yet they told me lies

Desired outcome: send me my tablet

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6:41 pm EDT
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SafeLink Wireless Phone purchased from safelink

Safelink sold me a phone that they now say can't be activated in my zip code. That's something that should be checked before safelink customer service sells a phone to someone. It's reddiculous to sell people a phone that can't be activated in their area so that should be something that safelink customer service checks on before they take someone's money.

Desired outcome: Safelink start checking on availability in an area before they sell to people

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2:53 pm EDT
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SafeLink Wireless enrollment ID [protected] phone number [protected]

Some one from you guys company has this device hacked and monitored without my approval. I will not like to be stalked and harassed, i'm sure you wouldn't either... Will you? No! Okay. I will like to have a copy of this complaint that was made to you and next time take other people well being and privacy more serious.. This is not a game, this is someone life and their love ones life that your playing with! Thanks. Have a great day!

Desired outcome: I will have this handled no worries, no outcome is needed. I will just like confirmation that you have received this complaint.

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5:10 am EDT

SafeLink Wireless Cell customer service

I had been trying for over a week to return my defective cell phone to safelink/tracfone, and they ate my guts out over it-even though ti was well within the 1 year warranty. I finally got a return label, and they don;t even pay for the return shipping!

Desired outcome: REFUND, AND CHANGE THEIR POLICY OF NOT PAYING FOR RETURN SHIPPING.

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4:23 pm EDT

SafeLink Wireless Safelink service

i was approved 4/3/2021 and still haven't received anything. my enrollment id is [protected].

Desired outcome: receive phone service

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10:23 pm EST
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From: Wayne Breither Phone: [protected] email: [protected]@aol.com I have a life threatening medical condition. A collection was taken for me resulting in about 38, 000 air time minutes. When I recently activated my replacement phone, only 2000 minutes of air time were transferred. I suspect that the company stole the minutes because of their large number...

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4:58 pm EST

SafeLink Wireless Lifeline service

For the third time, my service has been disconnected. (Most recently on March 4, 2021) Each time it happens, I have to spend half an hour on the phone with someone in India, who is very difficult to hear and understand, and who keeps putting me on hold. Service gets turned back on, but after a few weeks, gets shut off again. Last two times, supposedly same problem: phone number not linked to my account, or something ridiculous like that.

I depend on this phone. I really don't want to have to call Tracfone again, because it takes ten minutes just to make them understand that this is a Safelink phone, and no, I DON'T want to buy a plan or more time.

Desired outcome: Turn service back on and LEAVE IT ON

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3:51 pm EST

SafeLink Wireless Customer service

I have never dealt with the upmost unprofessional, untrained employees ever. No one knows what the heck they are doing. You get transfered over and over, asked for a manager and that person claims to be a manager but still puts you on long holds to still not resolve the issue. The worse part is, if your calling from another safelink line, you will use up all those minutes because calling them is not a free call. Crazy crap... I don't understand why they would allow minutes to be used when calling them for issues that is their fault in 1st place. How is 350 min a month help those in need when they take all the min anyways...Omg

Desired outcome: NOT TO UTILIZE THE MIN WHEN CALLING THEM

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7:54 am EST

SafeLink Wireless I have not got my minutes.

My name is Connie Myrick and I have not got my minutes for march I always get my minutes at the end off each month I got my february minutes on [protected] at09:13 1077 minutes today is 02/28 and I have not seen nothing yet I had a problem and I called the corporate office and they was being really rude to me and so I talked to a guy and I told him how a lady and guy was talking to me and he said I wont be getting my minutes on the first to go buy your [censored] some minutes and another guy said I will be getting my minutes. So the manager at the headquarters said he would handle it and the same two people I heard in the background was there. Then I have to deal with my neighbors talking out loud saying you haven't got your minutes yet. I would like to change wireless services, the guy never called me back and he told me to cut my phone off and cut it back on cause I had bought minutes but didn't get all of my data he was rude very rude worse than the people that I talked to on the 611611 line.

Desired outcome: my neighbor teaching me about call the police on people and reporting people

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3:04 pm EST

SafeLink Wireless Safe link not turning off my service with them

I turned on my Qlink services with government program for cell phone. I had previous service with Safe link wireless who is refusing to turn off my service due to several attempts to enable me to change my government program free cell phone services to other wireless business service (Qlink). My number is [protected]. Safelink is now refusing my calls to get this solved or have not returned my messages..

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8:27 pm EST

SafeLink Wireless Recertifying and lost phone

I had a mental breakdown. I don't remember several yrs. I need a cell phone. I had safelink from [protected] they said. I lost the phone. Don't have any information about the phone. They are giving me the run around when I talk to them. Call here call there, etc. I've been doing this for 2 months. I need a permanent cell ph. I can't afford one or minutes. Plz help me

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10:50 am EST

SafeLink Wireless Cell phone lifeline services

Not fair! Safelink took my 1000 minutes to 350 minutes, no warning, no explanation!

Class action suit! They know what and why they are doing this, denied ever giving me 1000 minutes... Passed me to to 7 reps, yes 7!

Unreal! Im not stopping there...

The national verifer said they have been doing this, some law or reg. Lets them get away with it!

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2:44 pm EDT
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SafeLink Wireless Replacement phone

I have had my phone for over a year and it stopped working. It would power up and then shut off and it just kept doing this repeatedly. I am on a government program and have been the entire time. I called SafeLink on Friday, October 16, 2020, spoke with a customer service agent and he ordered me another phone and told me they would be sending a replacement box for my old phone. I waited a week with no phone, so I called back to check on the status. I was told that I was declined for a new phone because the warranty expired and I was only entitled to one replacement phone. I have never asked for a replacement phone so this would be my first. I told him this and he stated that he couldn't help me because his computer said no. I received no email or any other kind of communication about being denied anything.
I am a retired Veteran and I need a phone, I don't understand this entire process or what really happened. I have been without a phone for a week and I don't know what to do. I have been with Safe-link for over a year.
Rhonda Carchano
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You can text me at [protected]. I do not currently have a phone to call.

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About SafeLink Wireless

SafeLink Wireless provides government-supported mobile phone services to eligible low-income individuals under the Lifeline program. They offer plans with talk, text, and data, as well as free phones to qualifying customers. Their services aim to ensure connectivity for those in need.

Overview of SafeLink Wireless complaint handling

SafeLink Wireless reviews first appeared on Complaints Board on Sep 11, 2009. The latest review Safelink phone service was posted on May 10, 2025. The latest complaint TracFone*Airtime 7/14/23 and 7/15/23. was resolved on Jul 15, 2023. SafeLink Wireless has an average consumer rating of 2 stars from 370 reviews. SafeLink Wireless has resolved 57 complaints.
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