Wilmactel wants 28 dollars and 87 cents . . .

[ritaxis]

Back in Auguest I got a collect call in the middle of the night.  The person had the same given name as a friend of mine so I accepted it -- but it wasn't anybody I knew, so we shared our regrets and hung up. Maybe a minute.

Now I've gotten a bill for $28.87 from a telecom company based in Florida. Well, I don't have any credit to ruin, so they can't bully me into paying the stupid bill.

Ridiculous charges for something that costs practically nothing to provide.

Comments

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Sounds scam-ish to me, actually.

I know that's a small amount, but I got hit not too long ago with a charge slightly less than $7 from a supposed car parts dealer in Florida. Research proved that they never charged anyone's card more than $12, apparently hoping that such small charges--hundreds of them a day, as it turned out, so they were doing pretty good--would either go unnoticed, or the victim wouldn't be willing to go to the trouble of fighting such a small amount.

(I did, and changed my card, even though none of my research indicated that any card was hit a second time. My bank, though, seemed to think I was making at least a large ridge out of a molehill.)

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Almost twenty-nine dollars isn't actually a small amount for me, though. It could make the difference between being able to pay my bills or not, some weeks.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Same here. I should've been more specific, as in "small compared to other scams I've seen". One miscreant in Russia tried to pull $600 out of my account once.