I got scammed by a company called Foneright Voicemail. Without my permission they charged $14.95 directly to my Embarq phone bill as a third party charge for a voicemail program I never wanted. They said I opt-in through a shopping network website. Yeah right! They said the lady on the account was Michelle Williams or something like that. Be careful when you register for websites when purchasing things. The guy at Foneright was too smooth for me to think that this didn't happen all the time. I told him he and his company were scammers and their way of doing business was wrong. He took it well.
Anyway, people, put a block on your phone line from 3rd party charges. This is free and will save you from paying for stupid things that you don't want or order.
This type of thing happened to me before but instead of charging my phone bill they charged my credit card. It was a company called Great Fun. I didn't notice they had been charging my credit card for 2-3 months for about $10 each time. They piggybacked their service onto something I bought online. Again, they said this was with my permission and they told me which website I had signed up on and I'd never heard of it, nor visited it.
I can't remember what retailer I bought the item from, but they let this Great Fun have my credit card information. They are scammers too! If you google these companies there are a ton of complaints about them.
Don't get scammed like we did!
Has this happened to any of you? Please comment.
5 comments:
I like your graphics. They really add to the drama.....That really sucks. I hate companies like this, especially when their employees act all righteous and like they don't think they are doing anything wrong. You think that they would get the hint when I am sure that they get calls all the time with people that didn't order their services. Glad you caught it.
Thank you for the tip! I'm glad you stood up for yourself. I hope it works out.
Your family picture is SO cute!!
Thanks, Sarah. I created the red part of the graphics myself with some construction paper and crayons.
That sucks! Just a couple weeks ago I tried using my debit card and it wasn't working, so I called Dave at work and was like, do we really not have any money in our account? He said we did, so I went on the internet to see how much was in our account. It said we had plenty of money in there, so I couldn't figure out why my $30 purchase wouldn't go through. I called the bank and they said they had found fraudulent charges on there and put a block on our cards. We had to get new ones, but those didn't work either, so we had to get new ones again. Anyway, it was a pain, and I don't know what the company was, but I think they only charged our card .14 cents! Weird! I guess they had found several of those charges on other people's cards too. I'm glad they caught it so it didn't happen over and over!
Yeah I had a similar experience with some company that piggybacks off of Amazon.com. They had been charging my credit card $10 a month for some shopping discount thing that I didn't know that I had signed up for. They had been charging me for about 5 months before I noticed it. I called them and they refunded all my money but it still made me mad!
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