"Inactive Device" appear on my tracfone account

[@$#£€¥_001]

I looked at my Tracfone account today and noticed an inactive account that wasn't there previously. I don't know why or where that came from. I've only had one device (Samsung Galaxy S9) on Tracfone for the past couple of years. The inactive device is titled "Default_Old" with my current phone's 15 digit SIM card number. It also says "Last Day of Service" 04/03/2021 with an Activate button. The only thing I did to my account recently was added airtime to my phone on Friday, 04/02/2021. My active Samsung Galaxy S9 account has always had a service end date in 2027. My phone is working normally. All calls/texts are sent/received and data is working.

Also, my talk and text balances haven't updated since October 2020. I will occasionally add additional talk minutes because I don't want to be in the middle of an important conversation and my call drops. So, could this be a case of Tracfone tinkering with my account to fix that issue or something else?

[hpham]

That issue was recently discussed in THIS THREAD , starting around post #1007.

[@$#£€¥_001]

Ok, well, I guess it's just because I added regular airtime. I've never redeemed any reward points.

[Mosaic55]

Ok, well, I guess it's just because I added regular airtime. I've never redeemed any reward points.

It's interesting to see that they're messing up everyone's history, not just rewards points users.
It looks like they are trying to restart the timer on unlock eligibility.

[Lisme]

It's a fraud scheme.

Every time they do the deactivate/reactivate, it ups their activation count.

It seems to be done randomly to hide it better.

I have two lines. They are basically twins. One got the mess-up treatment. The history had four Updates added for good measure that had no descriptions, all on the same date.

So basic TF genius.