Lisa
Timonium,#2Author 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,#3Author 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,#4Author 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,#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.