http://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=186 Personal weblog of Space Rogue, former L0pht member and editor of the Hacker News Network. Mon, 13 May 2013 14:14:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=186&cpage=1#comment-20580 sdreeder Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:35:07 +0000 http://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=186#comment-20580 I have Verizon as a land line provider and when I got an email stating that my bill was available online and took a look at it, I knew immediately something was amiss. I never use my land line for anything other than local calls so my bill is basically, always the same amount or close to it. When I saw a charge of $21.15 on it I immediately called Verizon to see what it was. They advised me to call the number provided on the bill beside the charge, which I did immediately.
I was told that since it had been less than 30 days I would receive a credit on my phone bill for the amount. I told them I had not authorized this charge and I wanted it removed.
I received a confirmation number from them and am waiting to see it removed from my phone bill. I made the call on Friday evening and just checked my verizon account online and have seen no credit yet.
What really gets me is, I thought I had a block on my land line that would prohibit anyone from pulling a scam like this but Verizon told me that the FCC mandates that they allow things like this to be charged to your account…….Sounds fishy to me. I thought I had a block in place that would keep anything like this from ending up on my account.
I just decided to google PC Protect today and found your post. I hope these scammers get caught and punished!
I’ll keep an eye out for future posts.
Thanks!
Steve

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