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afni keeps asking for $50

Date: Wed, 09/15/2010 - 14:40

Submitted by missy leigh
on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 14:40

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I have been getting letters from afni saying I owe AT$T Mobility $1928.16 but if I pay $50 the debt will be paid in full. I live in Texas and this debt is over 4 yrs old. ATT never even tried to collect because I had just added a new phone to my cell plan, the phone was stolen a few days later by my daughters boyfriend. I called to cancel it within minutes of noticing it was gone. I was told by the rep it would be turned off right away. Well it wasn't and he and a friend ran the bill up on purpose. The next month I got a bill for $2500. Of course I called very upset and they admitted it was their mistake and they would take off the charges. I canceled my service with them, I had every right to since I had only had the phones for less than 30 days. It was dropped and over. I use ATT for my internet and land line. A few months ago I called wanting to switch my satellite to them. After an hour on the phone I was told I could not because they never cleared the cell problem out of the system even though they saw that the phone was stolen and charges dropped. They said I had to remember my password in order for them to clear it. Now I start getting these letters from afni saying $50 will clear a $1928.16 debt??? Seems fishy to me. I'm sure if I did owe that much my other services would have been cut off. I also got a letter from afni over an old verizon bill, I do owe them a small amout still. But that has been over 5yrs and they want over $300 for it and I don't even owe that much.

Should I send a dv and sol at the same time???? I'm a little scared to respond to them as they seem shady by offering such a small settlement offer, not that I even owe it.


better yet, get AT&T back on the phone and ask them what the hell they think they are doing, hiring a collection agency to collect a debt that they themselves even admit is not owed. I would record that phone call.....no joke. Put it back on them to call off the dogs--if they know that this was fraud, then they dont have any business hiring a debt collector to come after you for it. If they didnt hire the debt collector, you want that information on tape as well. Then you could go back to AFNI and tell them that they are trying to commit fraud and that you are reporting them to every relevant state and federal agency for it.


lrhall41

Submitted by skydivr7673 on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 03:49

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well now i just found out they are on my credit report saying i used verizon in 2009. because of this i have to pay a deposit to get electricity turned on where i am moving because only one company offers it there. so i pulled my credit report and found tons of stuff that i knew nothing about. might explain all the spoofed calls i get all day long. i have some pinnacle financial calling 20 to 50 times a week. they will not speak and use spoofed numbers. i'm sure there are threads about them on here too. and now i'm getting constant spam scams on my cell.

i'm considering this identiy theft. someone has my info and is reporting debts i don't owe. i know they are all scam or collections agencies but i'm checking into the identity theft thing anyway. after all they are using my information to try to collect money illegally. now i'm going to have spend money sending tons of certified letters to credit agencies to get this stuff removed and don't appreciate the high deposit i'm forced to pay when moving.

i switched banks over a year ago and i'm now wondering if that may be the cause of it. a relative worked there and has told me of many firings for reasons like tellers looking up a person's account just to look at it. most people at the branch i used were fired for theft and such. i also know for sure of a conversation about my balance between the manager and an ex employee. i only use the account to pay certain bills. i don't like everyone knowing how much my bills are and talking about it.

i bet somehow they are involved. oh....pinnacle has called twice since i started typing. i'm going to have to pay to have my cell changed too. this is getting to be too much of a hassle


lrhall41

Submitted by missy leigh on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 13:20

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