26, Report:
#309524
Posted Date:
Feb 17 2008
Afni Trying to collect on a closed 10 year old account that never had a balance. Bloomington Illinois
I responded via phone to Afni. Inc when I received a letter requesting payment of an old phone number from 1999 from (now defunct) Bell Atlantic.
They were asking for $347.11. I explained to the service rep that I chose to close the phone number many years ago because I used it for...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
27, Report:
#306926
Posted Date:
Feb 07 2008
Afni Collections Trying to collect on an 11 year old Bell Atlantic, Version account previously unknown to me Bloomington Illinois
I got the collection notice letter from Afni, Inc back in December of 2007 informing me I owed them $346.21. I read it, let out a sign and threw it in the back seat of my car intending to deal with it later. It since got buried under several stacks of paper and books and my wife fou...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
28, Report:
#303747
Posted Date:
Jan 27 2008
AFNI, Inc Company Claims to have account for 9 year old paid phone bill from Bell Atlantic. Bloomington Illinois
Today (27 January 2008) I received a collection notice from AFNI, Inc. saying that I own $174.73 on a phone bill I had 9+ years ago while in the NAVY. This bill was paid in full before I transfered to a new duty station.
Upon investigating online, I found that this is common pra...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
29, Report:
#301554
Posted Date:
Jan 19 2008
Afni, Fraudulent Collection notice from for $1150.38 for an account I never had at Verizon/Bell Atlantic. Bloomington Illinois
I received a collection notice for $1150.38 for a disconnected land-line phone in Amityville, NY that was disconnected on 1/11/2008. I have never lived in NY and Verizon has no account listed for the supposed charges. To make things more interesting, that particular number is not di...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agencies
30, Report:
#301245
Posted Date:
Jan 18 2008
Verizon Communications They claim I owe $4,834.80 from the years 1993 to November 2001. New York New York
I received a letter dated January 6,2008, from Penn Credit Corporation claiming that I owe Verizon Communications, $4,834.80 for the years 1993 to November 2001. This is the first time I have been made of this accusation.
During those years I made payment each and every month t...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
31, Report:
#299104
Posted Date:
Jan 11 2008
AFNI Beaten A Happy Ending Thank You Rip Off Report Bloomington Illinois
Let me share.
I recieved a notice from AFNI inc. about a phone bill that I allegedly did not pay from about 9 years ago. Reading about these bottom feeders on RipOffReport.com, I found a template for a 30 day dispute letter.
I'm including the entire letter I wrote, for th...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
32, Report:
#294134
Posted Date:
Dec 28 2007
AFNI Verizon Account from 10 years ago that I never had! Bloomington Illinois
I also received a letter a couple days ago from AFNI claiming that I owe $221.35 from 1997 for Bell Atlantic. They gave me the address where the service was and I wasn't even living there at the time. I moved in the following year. They also gave me my previous phone number which ...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
33, Report:
#292587
Posted Date:
Dec 25 2007
Afni, Inc. Debit Collection Agency IlliniosBloomington Illinois
I received a letter from Afni, Inc. 022064655-02 dated 12/13/2007 stating that I owe Bell Atlantic $156.28. The only problem is that I never had an account with Bell Atlantic. I call today a spoke to someone who said her name was Jamie. She talked in circle because she did not ev...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agencies
34, Report:
#292750
Posted Date:
Dec 19 2007
Afni fraudulently attempting to take money Bloomington Illinois
I received a Collection Notice from Afni, Inc. They claimed I owed the sum of $202.21 for a Bell Atlantic New York phone bill from 2000. I have resided in California since 1997.
I called to dispute Afn's claim and while the woman on the phone was initially cordial she became ...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
35, Report:
#291955
Posted Date:
Dec 16 2007
AFNI Attempting to collect an 8-10 year old Verizon Bell Atlantic bill already paid Bloomington Illinois
I received a collection letter from AFNI Inc. claiming that I owed Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) the paltry sum of $45.60. From 1996-January, 2005, I did live in New York and I did have the phone number listed in the collection letter. That information is correct;however, any and al...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agencies
36, Report:
#290916
Posted Date:
Dec 15 2007
Afni, sent me a collection notice for $303.62 for a Bell Atlantic ,Verizon, phone bill that is nine years old and at my old address which I wasn't living there at the time of the bill. Bloomington Illinois
Afni, Inc. sent me a Collection Notice for $303.62 for an old Bell Atlantic (Verizon) phone bill that is nine years old. The bill is dated when I no longer lived at the address or the state.
The phone number they had has been given to several other customers since the time of th...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
37, Report:
#291189
Posted Date:
Dec 13 2007
Afni, Inc sent bogus collection notice Bloomington Illinois
Alni Inc sent me a collection notice saying i owed $341.44 from Bell Atlantic. They showed a phone# I never had, i haven't even heard of bell atlantic. It's funny because I had a feeling it wasn't valid, then I read your reports and felt much better. I just got the letter so I can't...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
38, Report:
#264798
Posted Date:
Aug 02 2007
Afni Collections Trying to collect a debt that never happened ripoff Bloomington Illinois
I saw another report on here about Afni, the same thing happened to me. THey are a collection agency collecting bad debts. They sent me a letter a few weeks ago informing me of a debt they were trying to collect from 1995. The debt was from Bell Atlantic (which merged with Verizo...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
39, Report:
#261323
Posted Date:
Jul 17 2007
Afni Collections are a SCAM! BEWARE! ripoff Bloomington, Illinois
I received in the mail yesterday July 2007 a collections letter. Knowing this was impossible that it was even for me I called the company. They indicated where the address of service for Verizon(formerly Bell Atlantic) was and I explained I never even had that Telephone Number in m...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
40, Report:
#254947
Posted Date:
Jun 16 2007
Afni, Inc. Fraudulent collection claim Ripoff Bloomington Illinois
I received a notice from Afni, Inc saying that they were a collections company and that I had been referred to them for a past due bill of $147.57 . The bill was for a phone number that I had never had before. The account that was past due was from a company called Verizon New Yor...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
41, Report:
#1028989
Posted Date:
Jun 09 2007
AFNI - VERIZON CLAIMING A FRAUDULENT BILL FROM 2000 IN NJ ripoff Illinois
Please advice. I recieved a letter in the mail yesterday from AFNI saying i owed for a Verizon landline bill in NJ. I have been in CA for 6 years never heard of anything from Verizon. I had a landline when i was in NJ for two months which was taken over by my roommate in the company...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
42, Report:
#232268
Posted Date:
Jan 25 2007
AFNI ripoff Sent The Same Using An Old Phone Number Not Verizon's Acct Sent the same using an old phone number Not Verizon's Acct Bloomington Illinois
I received the same letter as did my husband but different amounts.
I'm telling you AFNI is so sneaky. I glanced at the phone number shown and it is an old phone number we had while in Wildomar, CA. We had GTE or PacBell then. My letter used a phone number we had when we lived ...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
43, Report:
#230342
Posted Date:
Jan 13 2007
AFNI AFNI Fraudulent Billing Ripoff Bloomington Illinois
I too have got the notice from AFNI $900 some odd dollar bill. Found out it is from 1994 for a (727) area code phone number in St. Petersburg FL. Of coarse I didn't live in St. Petersburg in 1994. I was not married at the time so the notice should be in my maiden name not my marr...
Entity
Categories: Collection Agency's
44, Report:
#202222
Posted Date:
Jul 31 2006
Verizon Wireless ripoff. Was not told of the buy one get one free Deptford New Jersey
I have been a Verizon wireless customer for almost 20 years. Way back when they were Bell Atlantic.
I went into the Deptford store to upgrade my plan so I can add lines for my boys. We saw a nice phone which cost $129.00. I decide to go with that but couldn't buy two at the time ...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
45, Report:
#192081
Posted Date:
May 18 2006
Verizon, NYNEX, Bell Atlantic discrimination, unethical, underhanded, prejudice, retaliation, revenge NY New York
I was a manager with Verizon for almost 20 years. I had a violent employee. Because I wanted to report him to corporate security, my boss, Susan McAdams, threatened to have me fired if I did. She did not want it on her record that she had a violent employee working for her. To m...
Entity
Categories: Telephone Companies
46, Report:
#156594
Posted Date:
Sep 11 2005
USBI & One-Call Communications T/d/b/a Navicom And Opticom ripoff charges Carmel Indiana
This is to all other victims reporting here. After the USBI bill from USBI in Feb. 2005 for $112.23 to 3 calls in DiegoGarcXX and same amount to 3 calls in Guinea-Bisxx for which I was able to determine internet LD charges to sexexplorers.com on my own via yahoo, I wrote USBI and ne...
Entity
Categories: Internet
47, Report:
#151093
Posted Date:
Jul 24 2005
Bush Construction, Scott E. Bush, Scott Bush, Susan C. Bush, Susan Bush Ripoff Unscrupulous contractors used deceptive business practices to obtain $ 17,190.00 for construction work to our garage. They did not do work and abandoned project. We incurred additional expenses of $ 5,453.00 Center Valley Pennsylvania
Two contracts (dated 6-11-99 and 7-2-99) were drawn up and signed at the homeowners residence. Scott E. Bush and Susan C. Bush (unscrupulous contractors) accepted $ 17,190.00 for payment of construction work to our garage in Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County. They vio...
Entity
Categories: Builders & Contractors
48, Report:
#26655
Posted Date:
Jul 17 2005
Verizon Yellow Pages Superpages ripoff fraudulent liers mafia tactics 1 way contract evil beurocracy theives Towson Maryland
Verizon forerly Bell Atlantic Yellow pages has de-evolved into the biggest scam network to affect small business to date. Using inaccurate one sided research & outright lies, a highly scam trained staff of psychological manipulators and liars, they have corrupted what was once a vit...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
49, Report:
#8926
Posted Date:
Dec 23 2004
Verizon Wireless Profits On Deposites *REBUTTALS I must agree & ..You must be joking!
Twwo years ago verizon ( who at that time was Bell Atlantic ) came to my office to promote their wireless phone service , which was a great place to market their product as my office was a Real Estate Office. At that time they had a good promotion for the companion phones so I took...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
50, Report:
#105544
Posted Date:
Sep 23 2004
NEXTEL RIPOFF THEY DO NOT CARE FOR THE CONSUMER AT ALL! Reston Virginia
Nextel
I have been a customer of Nextel since I cancelled my Bell Atlantic phone in 1998. And I am a delivery driver for a large company, and I have delivered to your building in Reston for years. I have nothing but trouble, and it seems to get worse than better, why? I have s...
Entity
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies