Dakine
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join:2000-03-26
Honolulu, HI
 ·Hawaiian Telcom
| reply to bigbeartech
Re: Does no one else have a problem with this?
If the phone company wants to legally collect from your parents they must list the number of the party that requested your parents to accept the charges. You may then legally pursue this now known party in SMALL claims court, unless it is over a specified dollar amount. If it is a Interstate call then you may also submit a request to the FCC or state PUC office to investigate further for you since your parents pay the PUC fees to the State and Federal government monthly. I would pursue this just to get the FCC, FTC, and State regulatory agencies off their hands or was that rectums, either way use these agencies. They have about 20 or 30 fraud teams of investigators at each level. If you do not use it expect the scam to continue. Once the phone company has to go to court for these third party scams they will remove this and like type services to eliminate the cost of having to maintain a large legal staff IMHO.
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bigbeartech
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join:2001-09-23
Saint Louis, MO
| reply to Camelot One
You know, I was thinking "so what if FBI wants an ability to listen in on calls that they legally got a soupena for (however you spell that)."
Then you bring this up...
very very good point...
Case in point, the Bells are very 'loose' on people using the phone system illegally. Freakers, as those who hack the phone system, call themselves use multiple means.
My parents were recently a part of a tiny scam. They recieved a call from their phone company (MCI, yah... I know they are already under investigation), asking if they would accept the charges for an "Adriana". Well it was close enough to a name within the family, and being as my parents were half awake, they accepted, and the phone hung up.
They had just been a victem of 3rd party charging. A retarded insecure POS allowed by the phone company.
To make the story better...
Same call, next night. Parents more alert, asked the operator, where is it comming from they ask. First response "I cant tell you that", er what? My parents say, the hell you cant, we are paying for it. So they say "Phone booth in..." a town they live next to...
Ok, wheres it going to "I cant tell you that"... ER WHAT? Again my parents stated the fact they are paying for it and they are calling the police after this. So the phone company says some where in California. Not specific at all.
Then my parents state, I want to speak to a supervisor, then click...
o_O Im really wanting the # they called... because, well I wont go into what Im going to do.
Anyways, I guess, regardless of what they do, there is always a way.
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