My turn to be on the news! Topic: The Scam of the Week! KFOR news.

I am going to be on the Channel 4 Scam of the Week. It is a part of the In Your Corner spot. They are interviewing me this afternoon. I sure didn't want to be on the news but this is to important to just ignore!  It's funny cause I don't even care what I look like and that was always an issue when I had to be in the news all the time with my other job....
If you watch KFOR....then watch for the Scam spot or In Your Corner.

Sherry

That's awesome Sherry!  I'm so glad you went above and beyond to try to help get this scam stopped!  You will at least help make everyone aware of what can happen without even knowing it's going on.  I'm sure you will look great as well!!  At star is born.....

Deb

Okay.  I've obviously missed something, because I don't know what happened.  I won't be able to catch the spot, so what's up?

I was looking at my AT&T bill and there were 3 companies that had decided to start billing me for services that I hadn't even authorized to subscribe to. The total of all three business's was 47 bucks, to be billed monthly!! The problem was that AT&T said they couldn't remove the charges. They told me there was nothing I could do except call them, demand credit back, and cancel the subscription and get a confirmation number so that they could prevent them from continuing to bill me. He had had the same thing happen to him. He told me that any of these companies that get your name and phone number can start billing you for services and you don't have to have authorized it!  They said I ordered the service on line and the only two things I do online lately are go to FaceBook and a site for Freebies....like coupons and samples of stuff.  The AT&T guy said never give them your phone number...or cell phone number either!  Anyway, I got them to credit AT&T back so now AT&T has to wait on them and then they will credit me. One of those companies was even a Fraudwatchguard. I KNOW better than to get into those so I would have never agreed to that one! I just don't sign up for anything like this.
One lady I talked to at AT&T said some times they call you and ask if you have ever heard of their company and if you say yes....they use it as permission to start charging your phone service. This is not just an AT&T problem either....It is any phone service company. So I was stupid I guess and now am going to admit it on TV so no one else does it!!!

If they were telephone services, that's called slamming and the Corporation Commission Consumer Complaints Department would love to know about that.  If it involves your phone service, please let me know so I can get you in touch with the right person. 

Yes!! It was my phone service. Scott Hines, from channel 4, just left here and he said that is what it was called too. I told him I wanted people to know about what happenedm so that they can watch for it and maybe we can put a stop to it! 
Who would I talk to at the Corp. Commission?
Scott said they are going to do the story on this on Monday. If I can stop it from happening to one person I have done my job by taking it to the news!

I'm going to set the DVR so I don't miss it!!!  Thanks for letting us know and good job going on record to warn others.

Do you know what time on Monday?

Sherry, I had the same thing happened to me But what I did was threaten ATT with a lawsuit. After arguing and showing my assertive self they credited my account. And to be on the safe side I made sure that I had a block put on my number for charges that could be billed to my number that are not from ATT.
Will look for ya Monday!

This is exactly why I have been telling everyone to check their phone bills. It is not limited to just AT&T either. They told me that it could happen to anyone through any phone company, even cell phones.  They are going to credit my account but I had to get confirmation numbers in order for them to do that. They are the ones that should have the authority to prevent this from happening. I can't police all the criminals who go around trying to add services to my account. We should be able to say do not allow anyone to add a service to this account.....Shoot they won't even give me information about it until I give them all my info, so why should some dumb company be allowed to put charges on it??? Now this kind of stuff will turn on the B attitude in me, real quick!!