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I got fucked in the ass by a dialer phone bill

03-02-2004, 09:02 AM

I got my phone bill last night and see $131.88 for a call done in Sao Tomé (in Africa, I think!), so I call my phone company today to enquire about this amount. They tell me it was from a dial up don on my computer, and that I must pay since it came from my phone....think is, I never did visit the dialer site

I got so pissed that retained the service of a lawyer to write me a little lletter saying that is a fraud and that I will not pay the dialer bill. It going to cost me $175-$200 for this letter, but I really don't care.
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03-02-2004, 09:03 AM

call them back and tell them you spoke with your lawyer and you are not going to pay. if they care to press the issue, you wont have any problem what so ever bringing this to the public eye, and to court.

that should cool em out and knock it off your bill

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03-02-2004, 09:04 AM

you have motivation, most people would just pay the bill hehe

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03-02-2004, 09:06 AM

Originally posted by brand0n
call them back and tell them you spoke with your lawyer and you are not going to pay. if they care to press the issue, you wont have any problem what so ever bringing this to the public eye, and to court.

that should cool em out and knock it off your bill

I told them I want to contest this fee, but the phone cleck said that I had to pay to fee, and a bunch of the bs so I hung up on her and called a lawyer to write me a letter...
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03-02-2004, 09:11 AM

Originally posted by Alex from Montreal
I got my phone bill last night and see $131.88 for a call done in Sao Tomé (in Africa, I think!), so I call my phone company today to enquire about this amount. They tell me it was from a dial up don on my computer, and that I must pay since it came from my phone....think is, I never did visit the dialer site

How does the phone company know it was your computer dialing instead of a voice call? Something smells fishy.

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03-02-2004, 09:12 AM

Originally posted by Jimbo
you have motivation, most people would just pay the bill hehe

I more pissed at this dialer scam. It obvious this is a fraud....
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03-02-2004, 09:16 AM

Originally posted by NetRodent

How does the phone company know it was your computer dialing instead of a voice call? Something smells fishy.

The clerck told me it was a dialup and explained it happened and that I had to update my virus program every week to protect my computer...nevertheless I had to pay the bill because it came from my phone.

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03-02-2004, 09:18 AM

Lol you french canadians are cracking me up.
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03-02-2004, 11:39 AM

Deleted my post - wrong Alex - sorry.
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03-02-2004, 11:41 AM

bump for LasseKongos

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03-02-2004, 11:42 AM

Originally posted by Alex from Montreal
I got my phone bill last night and see $131.88 for a call done in Sao Tomé (in Africa, I think!), so I call my phone company today to enquire about this amount. They tell me it was from a dial up don on my computer, and that I must pay since it came from my phone....think is, I never did visit the dialer site

I got so pissed that retained the service of a lawyer to write me a little lletter saying that is a fraud and that I will not pay the dialer bill. It going to cost me $175-$200 for this letter, but I really don't care.

BTW you feel exactly the same as a surfer who got fucked in the ass by fine print cross sales. I am sure you sent traffic to sponsors that do that.
You'd better make rich a fellow webmaster thatn a random lawyer.

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03-02-2004, 11:43 AM

You have a modem?
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03-02-2004, 11:45 AM

Originally posted by polish_aristocrat

BTW you feel exactly the same as a surfer who got fucked in the ass by fine print cross sales. I am sure you sent traffic to sponsors that do that.
You'd better make rich a fellow webmaster thatn a random lawyer.

Yea FUCK auto-dialing dialers. That's just a pain in the ass for the whole industry. Few people benefit but it hurt us more than other things

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03-02-2004, 11:46 AM

Originally posted by Alex from Montreal
I got my phone bill last night and see $131.88 for a call done in Sao Tomé (in Africa, I think!), so I call my phone company today to enquire about this amount. They tell me it was from a dial up don on my computer, and that I must pay since it came from my phone....think is, I never did visit the dialer site

I got so pissed that retained the service of a lawyer to write me a little lletter saying that is a fraud and that I will not pay the dialer bill. It going to cost me $175-$200 for this letter, but I really don't care.

Get broadband, and kiss dialers goodbye
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03-02-2004, 11:48 AM

I work with dialers and know companies that have theire numbers in Africa.

1, get the new Northon Antivirus + firewall.
2, don´t surf with dialup. Broadband is a must!
3, update your computor.

4, I think you have to pay... if you think your lawyer is good... theire lawyers is best... trust me
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03-02-2004, 11:56 AM

i thought u were from san diego?

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03-02-2004, 03:34 PM

Originally posted by polish_aristocrat

BTW you feel exactly the same as a surfer who got fucked in the ass by fine print cross sales. I am sure you sent traffic to sponsors that do that.
You'd better make rich a fellow webmaster thatn a random lawyer.

You don't understand, I think. I did not use the service of the dialer but yet they want me to pay for it. If I use a service or product, I will pay. But if I never used the service, why should I pay!

So yes, I'd rather pay a lawyer to write them a letter explaining that I was a victim of a fraud than pay a webmaster(company) that fucked me in the ass...
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03-02-2004, 03:53 PM

Originally posted by Manowar

Get broadband, and kiss dialers goodbye

i hear that new dialers can use broadband modems as well. perhaps only dsl though i'm sure i've heard of a new cable dialers. fucke dif i know how they'd work
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03-02-2004, 04:11 PM

Originally posted by Alex from Montreal
I got my phone bill last night and see $131.88 for a call done in Sao Tomé (in Africa, I think!), so I call my phone company today to enquire about this amount. They tell me it was from a dial up don on my computer, and that I must pay since it came from my phone....think is, I never did visit the dialer site

I got so pissed that retained the service of a lawyer to write me a little lletter saying that is a fraud and that I will not pay the dialer bill. It going to cost me $175-$200 for this letter, but I really don't care.

This happened to my son. A dialer disconnected him and reconnected to Madagascar. Imagine OUR surprise at the 442 dollar bill. We called the phone company and told them we did not do it and we will not pay it.

They do allow a one time credit for such things. Call them back and talk to someone who knows what they're talking about. You shouldn't need a lawyer for this.

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03-02-2004, 04:14 PM

Reading this makes me glad I threw out my modem 2 years ago
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03-02-2004, 04:30 PM

Hey Alex the EXACT same thing happened here.

My submitter was here working on dial-up and he ended up hitting a TGP's 404 page. Next thing we know we hear the computer dialing, but don't see anything going on on the screen.
We went through the task manager and everywhere we could think of but couldn't find any way to stop it and we couldn't reconnect through bellsouth.
We finally had to reboot the computer to get it to stop. We ran spybot on his computer and it deleted a bunch of shit and we thought we had it.

Then on the next month's phone bill we had an assload of calls to guess where, Sao Tome.
At 7 different times during the month this dialer started itself, connected for 7-15 minutes, and then disconnected. It was about $70 in charges.
I called the phone company and told them what happened and they said its an internet scam that they're VERY aware of, they credited the money back to my account and suggested I put a international block on my phone.

You should talk to someone else at the phone company.

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03-02-2004, 04:31 PM

This wouldn't have happened if you used perfection cash

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03-02-2004, 04:33 PM

I'd also like to add that the programmer who coded this dialer ought to be hung by his nutsac.
Its bad enough that dialers charge 8 bazillion dollars a minute just to access some shitty content. But this dialer installed itself without ever prompting us, it dialed by itself without ever asking us.

THEN it connected and not only did we not get any porn out of the deal, there was no way to find the god damn thing on the computer to shut it off. Can't even find it to uninstall it.
What the fuck do these people do at night when I'm sleeping?

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03-03-2004, 01:42 PM

Originally posted by Lenny2
Hey Alex the EXACT same thing happened here.

My submitter was here working on dial-up and he ended up hitting a TGP's 404 page. Next thing we know we hear the computer dialing, but don't see anything going on on the screen.
We went through the task manager and everywhere we could think of but couldn't find any way to stop it and we couldn't reconnect through bellsouth.
We finally had to reboot the computer to get it to stop. We ran spybot on his computer and it deleted a bunch of shit and we thought we had it.

Then on the next month's phone bill we had an assload of calls to guess where, Sao Tome.
At 7 different times during the month this dialer started itself, connected for 7-15 minutes, and then disconnected. It was about $70 in charges.
I called the phone company and told them what happened and they said its an internet scam that they're VERY aware of, they credited the money back to my account and suggested I put a international block on my phone.

You should talk to someone else at the phone company.

Can you check your bill to if it is the following phone number: 239281176 from Sao Tome?
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03-03-2004, 01:46 PM

another good reason to NOT USE IE YOU IDIOT
all those dialer scam use IE flaw, go for opera, firebird or whatever but NEVER EVER USE IE except to look your pages as most of the surfers use IE
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