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- Subject: Re: You Didn't Accept a Collect Call, But You'll be Billed Anyway?
- Message-ID: <telecom13.42.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 00:28:44 GMT
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- jack@myamiga.mixcom.com writes:
-
- > When the operator did come back on the line, the girl didn't have
- > enough money to pay for the rest of the call, and because her parents
- > don't currently have a phone (or so she claims), there was no number
- > that the call could be billed to. So the operator stated that the
- > remainder would be charged to the party she called. At no time did
- > the operator converse directly with my son, although he could overhear
- > all of this. After this the call was disconnected.
-
- Boy, can I top this story :-)
-
- Several years ago, my 21+ year old son quit his appartment and took an
- open-ended trip to Australia. Some disturbing incidents occurred which
- resulted in *many* long distance calls from him to me. Several months
- later, I received a > $1000 phone bill from AT&T for the calls. Seems
- that my son had charged his calls with an AT&T credit card on his
- disconnected US phone number. I contacted AT&T and could find no one
- that would admit having the authority to change the bill. As far at
- AT&T was concerned, my son had the same last name, therefore, I should
- pay for the calls (seems logical to me :-) I went around and around
- with them. The issue was not setteled until my son returned to the US
- and paid the bill himself. I carried a derogatory on my TRW report
- (with my explanation appended) for several years. I do not recommend
- AT&T as a company to do business with.
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Another of our regular contributors could tell a
- similar story about having been in business *as a corporation* for a
- period of time and going out of business, only to have AT&T come to
- him personally for the unpaid phone charges later on, insisting that
- he was responsible for the corporation he formerly was associated
- with. But I'll let him tell the story if he wants; it may be for some
- reason he does not want the details aired. PAT]
-