Thursday, November 17, 2005
Check Your Phone Bill for Fake Charges from OAN and Nationwide Connections
Check Your Phone Bill for Fake Charges from OAN and Nationwide Connections, Inc.
OAN, Billview.com, Billingconcepts.com, Nationwide Connections, inc., oanweb.com, Qwest are all involved, but make it very hard to trace back to the source of the bogus phone bill charges
In looking over my phone bill this month I discover a charge for $6.25. Now, you would think I would remember a collect a call from Spearfish, SD from last month, right? Well it's a bogus charge and I also discovered we had one on our bill from last February that was supposed to have been made in December 2004. That one was from Michigan and also for $6.25.
The numbers they provide in the bills will take you to Nationwide Connections whose supposedly bill on behalf of OAN, whatever those letters mean. All the numbers they give you at Nationwide Connections for OAN just take you back to Nationwide Connections. OAN really does not want to be contacted by you...!
The good thing is that Nationwide Connections readily gives you credit or in the case of my old charge says they will send a voucher that can be used against our phone bill for credit. We'll see if we really get one.
The message here is to check your phone bill every month and question any funny-looking charges.
Do some searches in Google for oan scam and billview scan and you will find it ain't just me.
Here's one blog entry that I found that confirms what I've seen:
(hris
¶ 2:30 PM
