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HOW TO STOP TELEMARKETER FROM CALLING YOU!

While this section doesn’t deal with saving money, it does deal with stopping telemarketers call cold before your dinner is!

Lets face it, every one of us has sat down to eat and then the phone rings and it’s a telemarketer! They say it will only take a minute but it’s a minute that you don’t want to waist. So why not get off the lists and enjoy your evenings a little more? It’s not as hard to do as you may think. Here are the fews way you can do to stop these telemarketers from making your diner cold: Read more »

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Wham-Bam-Slam! THE TELEPHONE SLAMMING

“–This Piece of *&^%…–”

O.K. O.K. Let calm down: telephone slamming is not what you think it is–BUT it can result in your slamming the telephone service provider!…

O.K. Here what it can “potentially” happen: You’re in your pajama, enjoying a nice cup of mocha, in the ‘mochalala mood’ for some billing chores. It’s time to pay your phone bill!

You open your phone bill (still in the ‘mocha mood’), look at the total and start to write a check–BUT–then you notice something! Your long distance carrier has been switched and you didn’t authorize it! At least you didn’t know you were authorizing it…

YOU HAVE BECOME THE VICTIM OF TELEPHONE SLAMMING! Read more »

PHONE BILL CRAMMING: “NO, IT’S NOT BECAUSE YOU PROCRASTINATE!”

If you looked at your phone bill and didn’t know what the charges were and paid then anyway, you are a good target for phone bill cramming! Phone bill charges confusion turns thousands of concerns into phone bill cramming victims every year. It’s one of the fastest growing complaints filed with the FCC.

Phone bill cramming is the illegal practice of placing unauthorized, deceptive or misleading charges on phone bills. Most of the time, these phone bill charges are buried in the phone bill or are worded using official sounding names.

To avoid being crammed you need to inspect your phone bill. Look for charges and services that you didn’t request or ones that are defined in general terms like: Service Fee, Service Charge, Expanded Calling Features, Voice Mail and Membership. These phone bill charges may be legitimate but you are only responsible for them if you authorized them.

The following are the FCC’s top recommendations on how to prevent being a phone bill cramming victim:

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