Yes, clearly the Government loves AT&T. Which is why they blocked the AT&T & T-Mobile merger.. And I believe you are wrong that they haven't had this happen...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2523...ing_for_textbased_communications_service.html
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Yes, clearly the Government loves AT&T. Which is why they blocked the AT&T & T-Mobile merger.. And I believe you are wrong that they haven't had this happen...
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2523...ing_for_textbased_communications_service.html
I have had this happen on att. I'm on a family plan and pay my portion to my mom, so I don't see the actual bill. She had mentioned it was high a few times and so I finally sat down to break it all out (I'm certain the carriers purposely make the bills as hard as possible to understand) and found 4+ months of increasing additional costs on my moms line for services that I had no idea what they were for.
No clue how they got authorized and my mom didnt either. She is admittedly not the biggest tech person but I think thats what made her easy prey for whatever the method was she was scammed into accepting whatever approval they needed to begin charging her (if there was one at all).
The whole practice of third party billing for these "services" is a complete joke. Any reputable service you sign up for makes you well aware you are doing it. I was pretty disgusted att even allowed this or that it was in any way legal. They did refund my money but only after I caught it and called them on their shenanigans.
Also fyi you can have these things blocked and I don't get charged for that blocking. A poster above said it and I couldn't agree more; I highly doubt there is a legitimate reason for these services to exist anymore (if there ever was). I bet the revenue collected is 99% ill gotten. Unreal that a "reputable" company like att would allow this two bit phishing scam as a part of their business model.
No clue how they got authorized and my mom didnt either. She is admittedly not the biggest tech person but I think thats what made her easy prey for whatever the method was she was scammed into accepting whatever approval they needed to begin charging her (if there was one at all).
The whole practice of third party billing for these "services" is a complete joke. Any reputable service you sign up for makes you well aware you are doing it. I was pretty disgusted att even allowed this or that it was in any way legal. They did refund my money but only after I caught it and called them on their shenanigans.
Also fyi you can have these things blocked and I don't get charged for that blocking. A poster above said it and I couldn't agree more; I highly doubt there is a legitimate reason for these services to exist anymore (if there ever was). I bet the revenue collected is 99% ill gotten. Unreal that a "reputable" company like att would allow this two bit phishing scam as a part of their business model.
I once had a $200 charge appear on my AT&T bill. When I called, they said it was for a Facebook game for credits. They removed the charge and the lady made a mistake and also gave me a $200 credit. I didn't have a bill for three months.
I had it happen on a landline provided by AT&T once. They claimed that I accepted a collect phone call from a prison in Vail, Colorado, to the tune of $75. Nobody was even living in the house at the time the phone call was allegedly received and accepted.
It took me somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 months to get the charge refunded... and AT&T was no help in the process, at all.
It took me somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 months to get the charge refunded... and AT&T was no help in the process, at all.
