Another kind of phone fraud in the making. It is called Cramming. One page of phone bill contains unfamiliar design or logo of a different company name billing an amount with notation that charges was for voice mail.
It works like these:
Other 3rd parties (another telephone company) add charges to your phone bill from services rendered. You did not make the call or you did not give any authorization of such services to occur. This calls did not originate from you. A local phone company is required to bill for other phone company indicating the charges to appear on the separate sheets of the local phone bill but with a logo of such company on top of the sheet. By scrutinizing clearly the mentioned charge amount, you will notice a discrepancy. Accepting a collect call from strangers on your phone or responding to an unrecognized and misleading voice mail during his call maybe the reason to this charges.
How to avoid it?
-Review your telephone bill. If there are irregularities of any charge from an authorized call from stranger, call the company that bill the charges and ask clarification. Question them why such charge was included in your billing.
-Inform your local telephone company regarding the disputed amount recorded in their bill charges, a call that you don't recognize. File a complaint to them.
-Don't fill out any contest entries (sweepstakes or raffle tickets).
-Have a record of all calls made to your number you accepted as legitimate calls, especially those pay for use or collect calls where this cramming act mostly occur.
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