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.
I can just say ditto to all of them above. We have 4 phone lines here and I have called the number back and put all 4 on the company's do not call list. I too, know all about reporting to the FCC. I'm just going to keep calling them, over and over again. Maybe they'd like to buy a pool table! HA!
the same ALLSEC number keeps calling me. Since it comes up on the Caller ID, I never answer it. Since they have called 4 times since 8am, I decided to google their number and found their site.
After reading everyone and finding that they speak with poor English, I decided to do what they used to do in the Marines during the war. They spoke in PigLatin. I think I'll see if I can talk in another language such as piglatin and see if they'll put me on their own 'do not call list.' Thanks for sharing your experience:
PS: if you know piglatin, you can translate my name.
They just called me and I told them to call RadyGa Atesba (above on the list) because I was sure he wanted to change his phone service ;-) Figured I'd let the Marines handle it LOL
This is a cool site. It reminds me of where people would go when they are put on hold.....so we can all talk together while waiting.