Usprizedraw.com American E-voice Voice Mail Scam on Verizon Bill London England
Anyone can go to usprizedraw.com sign up and use a bogus phone number. In this case they used one my companies DID's. On October 2008 we starting receiving a monthly charge of $14.95 by ESBI on behalf of American E-Voice for a voice mail box. I found the charge on 6/16/2009 and through a series of transfers got to Melissa from American E-Voice to canceled the service and gave me a cancelation number 6434626.
I have asked Verizon to block the account from 3rd party billing on 1-8-2008 and they have informed me that they can't guarantee the block to work complete.
So who all victimized the company I work for:
1. Verizon for not blocking the account from 3rd party billing
2. ESBI for charging us for services we did not request and not providing a way to stop being billed by them for any service without contacting me directly. Only I have authorization on the Verizon Bill.
3. American e-voice for the actual bill and not providing a way to stop being billed on any of our 700+ DID numbers.
Lisa
Timonium, Maryland
U.S.A.
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Lisa
Timonium,Maryland,
U.S.A.
Third Party Billing Scams on local telecom carrier invoices ie Verizon
#5Author of original report
Tue, June 16, 2009
If you have third party bills on your Verizon or other local carriers invoice go to http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml and e-mail your senator and representative to make these scams harder to be committed. They have an online form. My one e-mail will get filed a-way unless they get a wave of them.
Here is what I wrote. Other than spelling issues you are welcome to copy any part/all of it.
Re: Third party billing scams on Verizon Invoices.
Goal: Legislation to force all local telephone company's to block all third party billing unless they have in writing from the authorized person on the bill to allow it and state who the third party is. ie Verizon and allow Verizon Wireless.
Look closely at your own Verizon bills. See any "This portion of your bill is provided as a service to..." Then you've been scammed.
I manage the telecom bills for the company I work for. We have 850 DID's (Direct Inward Dial Numbers) plus various other numbers known as POT's lines. (Plain Old Telephone). Nearly every month I have a $14.95 charge on TESSCO's bill for voice mail for a specific DID. It is billed on behalf of ESBI (Enhanced Services Billing, Inc) and/or ILD Teleservices Inc.
These companies actually are billing your for another company. (Now we are up to Four companies involved in the scam. 1. Verizon 2. ESBI 3.ILD 4.Company with the voice mail box service. (This one keeps changing).
Here is how the scam works. An individual goes on a website such as usprizedraw.com, enters personal information (not necessarily their info) including a phone number then next billing cycle of that phone number has a new $14.95 charge for a voice mail box.
Verizon has been asked to block all third party billing but after a year has not done. They claim they can not block all third party billing.
Lisa
Timonium,Maryland,
U.S.A.
Third Party Billing Scams on local telecom carrier invoices ie Verizon
#5Author of original report
Tue, June 16, 2009
If you have third party bills on your Verizon or other local carriers invoice go to http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml and e-mail your senator and representative to make these scams harder to be committed. They have an online form. My one e-mail will get filed a-way unless they get a wave of them.
Here is what I wrote. Other than spelling issues you are welcome to copy any part/all of it.
Re: Third party billing scams on Verizon Invoices.
Goal: Legislation to force all local telephone company's to block all third party billing unless they have in writing from the authorized person on the bill to allow it and state who the third party is. ie Verizon and allow Verizon Wireless.
Look closely at your own Verizon bills. See any "This portion of your bill is provided as a service to..." Then you've been scammed.
I manage the telecom bills for the company I work for. We have 850 DID's (Direct Inward Dial Numbers) plus various other numbers known as POT's lines. (Plain Old Telephone). Nearly every month I have a $14.95 charge on TESSCO's bill for voice mail for a specific DID. It is billed on behalf of ESBI (Enhanced Services Billing, Inc) and/or ILD Teleservices Inc.
These companies actually are billing your for another company. (Now we are up to Four companies involved in the scam. 1. Verizon 2. ESBI 3.ILD 4.Company with the voice mail box service. (This one keeps changing).
Here is how the scam works. An individual goes on a website such as usprizedraw.com, enters personal information (not necessarily their info) including a phone number then next billing cycle of that phone number has a new $14.95 charge for a voice mail box.
Verizon has been asked to block all third party billing but after a year has not done. They claim they can not block all third party billing.
Lisa
Timonium,Maryland,
U.S.A.
Third Party Billing Scams on local telecom carrier invoices ie Verizon
#5Author of original report
Tue, June 16, 2009
If you have third party bills on your Verizon or other local carriers invoice go to http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml and e-mail your senator and representative to make these scams harder to be committed. They have an online form. My one e-mail will get filed a-way unless they get a wave of them.
Here is what I wrote. Other than spelling issues you are welcome to copy any part/all of it.
Re: Third party billing scams on Verizon Invoices.
Goal: Legislation to force all local telephone company's to block all third party billing unless they have in writing from the authorized person on the bill to allow it and state who the third party is. ie Verizon and allow Verizon Wireless.
Look closely at your own Verizon bills. See any "This portion of your bill is provided as a service to..." Then you've been scammed.
I manage the telecom bills for the company I work for. We have 850 DID's (Direct Inward Dial Numbers) plus various other numbers known as POT's lines. (Plain Old Telephone). Nearly every month I have a $14.95 charge on TESSCO's bill for voice mail for a specific DID. It is billed on behalf of ESBI (Enhanced Services Billing, Inc) and/or ILD Teleservices Inc.
These companies actually are billing your for another company. (Now we are up to Four companies involved in the scam. 1. Verizon 2. ESBI 3.ILD 4.Company with the voice mail box service. (This one keeps changing).
Here is how the scam works. An individual goes on a website such as usprizedraw.com, enters personal information (not necessarily their info) including a phone number then next billing cycle of that phone number has a new $14.95 charge for a voice mail box.
Verizon has been asked to block all third party billing but after a year has not done. They claim they can not block all third party billing.
Lisa
Timonium,Maryland,
U.S.A.
Third Party Billing Scams on local telecom carrier invoices ie Verizon
#5Author of original report
Tue, June 16, 2009
If you have third party bills on your Verizon or other local carriers invoice go to http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml and e-mail your senator and representative to make these scams harder to be committed. They have an online form. My one e-mail will get filed a-way unless they get a wave of them.
Here is what I wrote. Other than spelling issues you are welcome to copy any part/all of it.
Re: Third party billing scams on Verizon Invoices.
Goal: Legislation to force all local telephone company's to block all third party billing unless they have in writing from the authorized person on the bill to allow it and state who the third party is. ie Verizon and allow Verizon Wireless.
Look closely at your own Verizon bills. See any "This portion of your bill is provided as a service to..." Then you've been scammed.
I manage the telecom bills for the company I work for. We have 850 DID's (Direct Inward Dial Numbers) plus various other numbers known as POT's lines. (Plain Old Telephone). Nearly every month I have a $14.95 charge on TESSCO's bill for voice mail for a specific DID. It is billed on behalf of ESBI (Enhanced Services Billing, Inc) and/or ILD Teleservices Inc.
These companies actually are billing your for another company. (Now we are up to Four companies involved in the scam. 1. Verizon 2. ESBI 3.ILD 4.Company with the voice mail box service. (This one keeps changing).
Here is how the scam works. An individual goes on a website such as usprizedraw.com, enters personal information (not necessarily their info) including a phone number then next billing cycle of that phone number has a new $14.95 charge for a voice mail box.
Verizon has been asked to block all third party billing but after a year has not done. They claim they can not block all third party billing.