Prevent Unauthorized charges on your phone bill !

[Guest guest]

For your own protection/prevention, call your phone company and tell them to put

a block on all third party charges. Tell them you will not pay for these.

 

Recently my phone company Verizon added an extra charge to my bill from a third

part ESBI to my bill. I never ordered or authorized ESBI for what they claimed

and when I called ESBI they didn't even have my name, they simple had my phone #

and someone else's name.

 

I then called Verizon and told them that I contracted with Verizon for Verizon

services only and not for them to serve as collectors for illegal scam type

ventures by other companies.

 

Simply Google " ESBI " and you will see numerous complaints; here's a sample of

just few :

 

Rip-off Report: ESBI - Verizon Charged for services not ordered ...

ESBI - Verizon Charged for services not ordered, refused to pay, now in

collections!! Nationwide.

 

ESBI Complaints - fraudulent email phone charges

Sep 14, 2008 ... ESBI Complaints: fraudulent email phone charges. Internet

Services.

 

ESBI Complaints - Fraudulent charges

Sep 1, 2008 ... ESBI Complaints: Fraudulent charges. Unauthorized Charges.

www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/esbi-c94716.html - 62k -

 

It should be illegal for Verizon and other phone companies to add charges to

their customers' bills from other companies, especially because this

promotes/encourages all sort of scams and illegal activity. I do not know why

Verizon wants to ruin its image by doing this? This seems to be a nationwide

problem.

 

For more details of people's experiences with ESBI see:

http://sharingthesecretoflife.blogspot.com/2005/11/enhanced-services-billing-inc\

..html

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/158/RipOff0158819.htm

 

Amma Bless and Protect us from such scams,

amarnath

[Guest guest]

If you already have an unauthorized charge you can call to have it

fixed, but also ask your phone company to block any such future

charges. Here's someone's experience "

 

" I did manage to call Enhanced Services Billing Inc the next day. The

woman I spoke to was happy to credit my phone bill for that charge, and

the next charge that was likely to have gone through since the time of

the previous bill and my call to her. I asked her the same question I

put to Local Phone Corp. How could this happen if I didn't order the

service? Well, she says the order is placed not by name, but by

telephone number. Chuck Somebody, who actually had ordered the service,

must have accidentally given my number. When Enhanced Services Billing

Inc sent the charge to Local Phone Corp, they identified the account by

telephone number. The faulty phone number Chuck gave them meant I got

billed. I was highly tempted to call BS on this, but the lady was

crediting my bill. And I thought the matter was over and pretty much

forgotten.

 

Forgotten, that is, until I opened my phone bill tonight. And there it

was, right there in black and white, both credits do appear on my bill,

$14.95 twice. And ninety cents back from the feds. Unfortunately, two

lines below that was another charge, $14.95, and 45 cents to the feds.

They billed me AGAIN!!!!! Well you can be sure I'll be calling them, and

you'll hear the results here. " ~

from ~

http://sharingthesecretoflife.blogspot.com/2005/11/enhanced-services-bil\

ling-inc.html

 

 

Ammachi , " amarnath " <anatol_zinc wrote:

>

> For your own protection/prevention, call your phone company and tell

them to put a block on all third party charges. Tell them you will not

pay for these.

>

> Recently my phone company Verizon added an extra charge to my bill

from a third part ESBI to my bill. I never ordered or authorized ESBI

for what they claimed and when I called ESBI they didn't even have my

name, they simple had my phone # and someone else's name.

>

> I then called Verizon and told them that I contracted with Verizon for

Verizon services only and not for them to serve as collectors for

illegal scam type ventures by other companies.

>

> Simply Google " ESBI " and you will see numerous complaints; here's a

sample of just few :

>

> Rip-off Report: ESBI - Verizon Charged for services not ordered ...

> ESBI - Verizon Charged for services not ordered, refused to pay, now

in collections!! Nationwide.

>

> ESBI Complaints - fraudulent email phone charges

> Sep 14, 2008 ... ESBI Complaints: fraudulent email phone charges.

Internet Services.

>

> ESBI Complaints - Fraudulent charges

> Sep 1, 2008 ... ESBI Complaints: Fraudulent charges. Unauthorized

Charges.

> www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/esbi-c94716.html - 62k -

>

> It should be illegal for Verizon and other phone companies to add

charges to their customers' bills from other companies, especially

because this promotes/encourages all sort of scams and illegal activity.

I do not know why Verizon wants to ruin its image by doing this? This

seems to be a nationwide problem.

>

> For more details of people's experiences with ESBI see:

>

http://sharingthesecretoflife.blogspot.com/2005/11/enhanced-services-bil\

ling-inc.html

> http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/158/RipOff0158819.htm

>

> Amma Bless and Protect us from such scams,

> amarnath

>