Monthly telephone billing for adult sites - GoFuckYourself.com

anidifranco · 12-04-2003, 04:53 PM

Are there sites out there offering this as a payment option? Below is my orginal post about this in another thread :
You may know more about it than I do, I happened upon this as a victim.

I am a pretty busy person, and didn't check my telephone bills for accuracy... I just paid. I moved in June and began to look over my telephone bills because I had changed a lot of services and wanted to make sure I was being billed correctly. Well there was a $24.95 charge from Integretel Inc. underneath this charge was something to the effect of "for questions about these charges call 1-888-xxx-xxxx." Also listed was the web site www.integretel.com which has changed dramatically in the months since June. At that time, the whole site was complete bullshit. You couldn't figure out what they did or sold, or if they even did/sold anything. It was unreal, me and my partner had a good laugh about it. So, I called the number...I was on hold for atleast 40 minutes being bounced around the "I'll transfer you to the person who does that" game. Each time the new person would answer, I'd have to give my whole story and then they'd say "let me transfer you to the person who handles that." Finally I said , "No, don't transfer me!" This particular woman must have had a glimmer of a soul left because she stayed on the line with me. She told me I had been being billed $24.95 a month since November 2001. I was outraged! She said that my business had signed to be on their online business directory. I told her that I had not signed up for any such service and furthermore, who in their right mind would pay $24.95 a month to be on their list which I still have yet to see? So in conclusion, I got her to cancel my account and I got off the phone in total disbelief that Bellsouth would be in business with these scam artists. I consider myself to be a savvy individual and I was taken for a total of $499.00 over a 20 month period. And I did not even know of the ability to charge someone's phone bill a monthly fee for service unrelated to the telephone. I thought then and now, "How scary would porn webmasters be with this ability?"
This is not about my $499.00 or the fact that it was a scam- I made this post to talk about billing. Is this the next big thing in billing? Is it being done?

Edit: It was nothing related to calling/dialing anywhere. It was a monthly charge to be on their list that was billed to my telephone bill.
http://www.integretel.com/about/1-2.asp
http://www.integretel.com/contact/4-1.asp

anidifranco · 12-04-2003, 10:07 PM

http://www.integretel.com/products/2-1.asp

This is some crazy shit.

Spudstr · 12-04-2003, 10:10 PM

welcome to the world of telephon and lec billing. i work with that crap everyday.

ztik · 12-04-2003, 10:11 PM

I thought the FTC shut them down a while ago

anidifranco · 12-04-2003, 10:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spudstr
welcome to the world of telephon and lec billing. i work with that crap everyday.

Tell me more..you work with this in the adult industry? I had never heard of it before this. Is it a legitimate way to target the non-credit-card-holding surfer or the surfer afraid to give out his cc info?

anidifranco · 12-04-2003, 10:23 PM

http://www.phoneplusmag.com/articles/2a1FEAT2.html

very very interesting

Kevin2 · 12-04-2003, 11:19 PM

hmm this is something to keep your eye on

anidifranco · 12-05-2003, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kevin2
hmm this is something to keep your eye on

Yes, I agree. This is intriguing. If you go to the bottom of the phoneplusmag article I posted and check the links to other LEC billers, I think you will agree with me that this must be being done in adult. If it's not, it certainly could be.

12-04-2003, 04:53 PM	#1
anidifranco So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 711	Monthly telephone billing for adult sites Are there sites out there offering this as a payment option? Below is my orginal post about this in another thread : You may know more about it than I do, I happened upon this as a victim. I am a pretty busy person, and didn't check my telephone bills for accuracy... I just paid. I moved in June and began to look over my telephone bills because I had changed a lot of services and wanted to make sure I was being billed correctly. Well there was a $24.95 charge from Integretel Inc. underneath this charge was something to the effect of "for questions about these charges call 1-888-xxx-xxxx." Also listed was the web site www.integretel.com which has changed dramatically in the months since June. At that time, the whole site was complete bullshit. You couldn't figure out what they did or sold, or if they even did/sold anything. It was unreal, me and my partner had a good laugh about it. So, I called the number...I was on hold for atleast 40 minutes being bounced around the "I'll transfer you to the person who does that" game. Each time the new person would answer, I'd have to give my whole story and then they'd say "let me transfer you to the person who handles that." Finally I said , "No, don't transfer me!" This particular woman must have had a glimmer of a soul left because she stayed on the line with me. She told me I had been being billed $24.95 a month since November 2001. I was outraged! She said that my business had signed to be on their online business directory. I told her that I had not signed up for any such service and furthermore, who in their right mind would pay $24.95 a month to be on their list which I still have yet to see? So in conclusion, I got her to cancel my account and I got off the phone in total disbelief that Bellsouth would be in business with these scam artists. I consider myself to be a savvy individual and I was taken for a total of $499.00 over a 20 month period. And I did not even know of the ability to charge someone's phone bill a monthly fee for service unrelated to the telephone. I thought then and now, "How scary would porn webmasters be with this ability?" This is not about my $499.00 or the fact that it was a scam- I made this post to talk about billing. Is this the next big thing in billing? Is it being done? Edit: It was nothing related to calling/dialing anywhere. It was a monthly charge to be on their list that was billed to my telephone bill. http://www.integretel.com/about/1-2.asp http://www.integretel.com/contact/4-1.asp

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12-04-2003, 10:07 PM	#2
anidifranco So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 711	http://www.integretel.com/products/2-1.asp This is some crazy shit.

12-04-2003, 10:23 PM	#6
anidifranco So Fucking Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 711	http://www.phoneplusmag.com/articles/2a1FEAT2.html very very interesting