This sounds like piracy -- "unregulated service" scammers, who get you to sign up for some bogus "service." Incredibly, they can actually use your phone company's lines AND the billing process to "get you" for a few dollars or cents a month until their scam is blown. Using the phone company lines is not actually illegal, but in doing so, they prey on phone companies' customers which is of course fraud. As I understand it, if your phone company is in a period of change or turnover, these scammers can swoop in and take advantage while their regulatory rules are in limbo. It's only speculation, but I wonder if the recent Homeland Security lawsuits against certain phone companies (like mine: Qwest) have anything to do with it. ALSO -- I talked to ALLSEC once too, and the young person who talked to me SLIPPED with his language and said "Have you been sent over to billing?" and I caught it, and said, "Billing?? I haven't agreed to buy anything!" and the kid was flustered and said, "Oh, I mean our information center," or something like that. DON'T LET THEM TALK YOU INTO ANYTHING.
Called 8/23 in the am was dead air and hung up. Call right back and the person on the other end wanted to talk to the person in charge of the ATT/Southwestern account. We don't have either and told them not to call back. The same person called back today 8/24 and told them we are on do not call list and not to call back. I guess well see tomorrow what happens.
We receive calls every day at least once from someone asking if we receive a notice in last long distance bill from Qwest and if we want to change our plan.
Got a call today from the same number and no one answer, i been getting calls on who handles our long distance, is anoying, how many times must we say STOP CALLING :)
Received 6 dead air calls today and finally stayed on the last one to see who it was. Girl said she was Jessica from ATT. (Jessica does not sound like an East Indian name) When I pushed she finally said she was from Reduced Rate Long Distance and refused to give me her phone number. When I hung up, I star 69'ed and got the number. When Googled, this came up. I tried to call ATT Customer Service (NOT!!!) and the girl there really didn't care, but said she took the infomation. I'll also report this to the FCC.