Imagine this, you go to sell an old phone at AT & T. And then over two years later, you find out someone is using your phone but all your personal information, like pictures and your bank account information is still on it. That's exactly what happened to a Moorhead woman.

Becky Anderson got a strange text Sunday morning.

"It said, 'hi I have your iPhone 5, it must have been lost or stolen'," says Moorhead Resident, Becky Anderson.

It was from a number shes never seen before. In fact, it was from the Ukraine. And at first she thought it might be a scam.

"There was a picture of my daughters in the background of it, it was the lock screen," says Anderson.

But then she started texting this number back. And she soon found out the person she was texting, bought the phone on eBay. That's when Anderson remembered bringing her phone to an AT & T store about 2 and a half years ago.

"The phone was dead. It had severe water damage, I couldn't turn it on. There was nothing I could do with it so I went to AT & T and traded in my phone," says Anderson.

But get this, when she brought it to the store all that time ago it was never cleared of her personal information. And now stuff like this is still on that phone.

"My emails potentially, anything I had saved on that phone, personal documents…," says Anderson.

Carl Burfeind buys, sells, and fixes phones as part of his business. And he tells us, whenever he buys a phone from a customer, they always clear it when the customer is still there. But Burfeind says, not all places do that.

"We are not required to clear the device. We do it because it's the correct thing to do but there's no law stating we have to," says Burfeind.

And that's why Anderson wanted to do this story. She wants to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else.

"This is coming up 2 and a half years later and now, potentially all of my info has been compromised," says Burfeind.

Anderson also tells us she did get in contact with the AT & T store she sold it to, but she says they couldn't help because it happened so long ago. But she found a way around it. She talked with a tech expert who helped delete her personal information off the phone.

We contacted the AT & T store on 13th Avenue in Fargo where Anderson says she sold the phone, but they weren't able to comment on the matter. We also talked with a spokesperson with AT & T who tell us they will be getting back with us soon.