311, Report:
#139149
Posted Date:
Apr 17 2005
USBI/navicom/one-call-acom USBI/Diego-Garc ph fraud Glen Allen Virginia
I too was a victim of phone fraud through the internet. Other victims beware that putting a block on your phone is NOT enough because the calls billed by USBI on my phone bill to Guinea-Biscc and Diego-Garcxx in the Indian Ocean were made during an online transaction. I found a web...
Entity
USBI/navicom/one-call-acom
Categories: Corrupt Companies
312, Report:
#133467
Posted Date:
Mar 02 2005
Verizon, Verizon Long Distance Billed for modem hi-jacking, unauthorized, unregulated international calls. Ripoff! Dallas Texas
This is a case of fradulant modem hi-jacking, we were billed and expected to pay for these charges. They were unauthorized and unregulated calls to Papua New Guinea. We are outraged that this is happening and continues to happen.
The consumer has no one to help them out! I t...
Entity
Verizon
Categories: Attorney Generals
313, Report:
#133090
Posted Date:
Feb 28 2005
Northwest Airlines Misinformed about traveling with pets; cost me $250 Cleveland, Ohio Ohio
I recently traveled to Cleveland Ohio due to a family emergency. While there, my family begged me to adopt the family pet as they could no longer care for him. My sister offerred to pay to transport him. To make sure there would be no problems, I called the airline, twice, to ask a...
Entity
Northwest Airlines
Categories: Air Travel
314, Report:
#124721
Posted Date:
Dec 28 2004
Tri-Electronics Rippoff incompetent technical installation Hammond Indiana
Lake County Sheriff Department used as guinea pig for technolgy company that uses technicians untrained to install Raytheon/JPS Communications E911 technology equipment. This cost the Department much time and expense to rectify these blunders. Tri-Electronics never sent their te...
Entity
Tri-Electronics
Categories: Communications & Networking
315, Report:
#113418
Posted Date:
Oct 18 2004
Educational Testing Service ripped me off. Princeton New Jersey
ETS is more of a disservice than a service. I feel that I was ripped off because I paid over one hundred dollars u.s. to take a required standardized test last November(2003). It is almost one year later,(October 2004) and I still have not received the results by mail or any expla...
Entity
Educational Testing Service
Categories: K-12 Language
316, Report:
#108993
Posted Date:
Sep 19 2004
AT&T rip-off! They said a computer virus dialed West Africa and they billed me $200. Lancaster Virginia
I am a US Marine. I deployed to Iraq in Dec 03 and put my home phone on 'autopay'. Returned in June 04 found AT&T intl phone call on my bills $200 to Guinea Bissau, West Africa. Called AT&T. they told me it was a 'computer virus' etc. However, since than 45 days had expired... NO R...
Entity
AT&T
Categories: Telephone Companies
317, Report:
#108843
Posted Date:
Sep 17 2004
National Research Confidential rip-off! Nationwide USA
This company advertises in mainly free papers to its victims with lies of financial freedom as a guinea pig subject. They claim to provide the victim with names and addresses when all they do is give obscure and frankly outdated lists of colleges out of the state the victim is resid...
Entity
National Research COnfidential
Categories: TV Advertisements
318, Report:
#84635
Posted Date:
Jul 21 2004
AT&T I am being charged for international call to Guinea-Bissau Africa after dialer installed itself onto my system from email recieved to a childs email address Aurora Illinois
This is a letter that I sent to AT&T regarding bill I recieved from them charged to after my child recieved a unsolicited email, which when opened downloaded a automatic dialer onto my system. Does anyone know how to trace a international call? AT&T would not provide me with compani...
Entity
AT&T
Categories: Telephone Companies
319, Report:
#98777
Posted Date:
Jul 13 2004
LUCKY STRIKE LOTTERY UK/CASH CHANGE UK LTD ripoff, Reading Berkshire Other
I recieve an E-maile from the above named company to congtatulate me on being a Category A winner of the Lucky Strike Lottery UK 6,500.000 EP!!!
I e-mailed the Co. to ask them what is my next step
The reply e-mail stated that I have to submit a Lottery Winnings Claim Form with a...
Entity
LUCKY STRIKE LOTTERY UK/CASH CHANGE UK LTD
Categories: Lottery
320, Report:
#23901
Posted Date:
Jul 13 2004
PETCO is a ripoff Guinea Pig scam. Van Nuys, California
My boyfriend, an animal lover, bought his first guinea pig back in April 2001. He initially bought a female, and decided he loved guinea pigs, so he bought more over the next few months. By June 2001, he had six guinea pigs, all purchased from different Petcos in the Los Angeles are...
Entity
PETCO
Categories: Pet Shops & Supplies