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SirPeale:
I need some advice from our legally-savvy folk.

About 15 years ago I lived in NY state.  Had phone service, yadda yadda yadda.

At one point I moved down the state a bit, lived in this house for about six months.

During that time I had MCI as my long distance carrier.  But for some strange reason I kept getting bills from AT & T for calls I didn't make.  Stuff to Daytona Beach, FL and some place in Delaware, and some others.

For a while I'd call the phone company, explain that these weren't our calls, and they'd reverse the charges.  We had a couple repair guys out to see if they could sort out what the problem was, but they couldn't find any problems.  But the calls kept going on our bill.  Finally, they refused to reverse the charges, stating "well, *someone* is making those calls, and from what we see, it's coming from your line."

So we bent over and took it, because we knew we were moving shortly.

We moved to Vermont.  And today in the mail, I received a collection notice from "afnicollections.com" that we owed $21.96 to them for an outstanding debt to our former phone company, during a period of time we didn't live there.

I called, and told them this story.  They said "Oh, you might as well just pay this, it'll cost you more money to fight it than the bill is for."

They told me I could dispute it on their site.  What a joke...I plugged in the account info, it came up with the same info on the notice.  There was a section to explain the dispute.  I typed in "did not live in area at time of dispute" and it told me it was too long!

I think I got it all...what now?

Cakemeister:
They will set up something that calls you every day at the same time, every day, for the rest of your life.

I have two of them calling me.

You might be better off changing your phone number, or even eliminating your home phone and going cellular-only.





SirPeale:
They asked for my phone number, and I told them 'no way.'  Of course they probably got it from called ID.

ChadTower:

That is too long.  All you're supposed to put is ---fudgesicle--- you.

ahofle:
 :laugh2:

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