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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Verizon / September 2007Help! This has me puzzled
and apparently customer service at Verizon, too.:rolleyes: So...we have Cingular (not relevant to topic). My husband's credit card shows two charges to a Verizon customer under the heading VZ CALL*TO and then the cell number. I recognize the number and know that this person is a Verizon customer. It's not on our cell phone bill, and when I called Verizon, they looked up this person's account and said the billing cycle wasn't complete yet and couldn't see if any calls had been placed to my husband's number or received by his number on that particular date. Verizon has no idea....says they are unfamiliar with any features that let you redirect the charge onto a credit card rather than it showing on your cell phone bill. Pretty handy if one wants to "hide" that he made this call. It was also long distance at the time, as we were out of town, and I guess a possibility that it could've been placed from a landline, but not likely as our cottage did not have a phone and we were just using our cells. So, is this a feature that Verizon customers have? Verizon said they have no record of my husband having any type of account with them, based on his name/DOB/SSN...all that. Any detectives want to help me figure this out? Thanks in advance! ~S~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ View this thread: http://www.wirelessforums.org/showthread.php?t=26753 http://www.wirelessforums.org > My husband's credit > card shows two charges to a Verizon customer under the heading VZ [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > placed to my husband's number or received by his number on that > particular date. Just for clarity, WHICH Verizon are you talking about? Verizon the landline phone company, or Verizon Wireless, the cellphone company. Typically the cellphone company abbreviates themselves VZW, not VZ, like your credit card Bill indicates. I don't know of any way to charge a wireless call to a credit card, but you could certainly charge a Verizon payphone call to one, or perhaps an operator-assisted long-distance call. > Any detectives want to help me figure this out? Thanks in advance! I don't suppose you've considered simply asking your husband? -- "I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003 I haven't asked him just yet, b/c this kind of thing has happened in the past, and I feel better approaching the situation armed with information. I was referring to Verizon wireless, so maybe that's it...it was a call from a payphone instead. Thanks for the response! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ View this thread: http://www.wirelessforums.org/showthread.php?t=26753 http://www.wirelessforums.org >I haven't asked him just yet, b/c this kind of thing has happened in the >past, and I feel better approaching the situation armed with >information. Ha! Maybe you should get a divorce lawyer or at least seek counseling! >> I haven't asked him just yet, b/c this kind of thing has happened in the >> past, and I feel better approaching the situation armed with >> information. > > Ha! Maybe you should get a divorce lawyer or at least seek counseling! Yep: good divorce lawyer! My first thought on reading the OP. Wherever you live, OP, don't forget to check the EasyPass (or whatever it is called in your area) billing records on your accounts that will show where the errant spouse was headed and returned through the toll portals. Q I have the same thing on my credit card, dated 8/31 - "VZ CALL*TO", apparently from a company called "VZ Call" according to the credit card company. But they won't tell me anything else. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ View this thread: http://www.wirelessforums.org/showthread.php?t=26753 http://www.wirelessforums.org > I don't know of any way to charge a wireless call to a credit card, but > you could certainly charge a Verizon payphone call to one, or perhaps an > operator-assisted long-distance call. This may be ancient history and not relevant, but I encountered something like this back in the days of analog. In 1999, Hurricane Floyd caused major flooding. I had my cellular service with AT&T at the time. Apparently AT&T had gotten a great deal on a piece of land in NJ (I think it was in Rochelle Park) and put their main switching center there without asking anyone why the land was so cheap. They found out after Floyd - the whole center was flooded and AT&T cellular service was off the air throughout the Northeast for several days. During one of those days, while in my home area - in a place where I always had a good strong AT&T signal, I urgently needed to make a call and after I dialed the number, I was connected to an operator who demanded a credit card number. I had no choice, so I gave the credit card number. At the end of the month, I found I had been billed $12.00 for a one-minute local call. I assume this sort of thing can't happen with most digital plans, but if your phone still has analog and you are unable to lock on to a preferred signal but you can get someone else's analog signal, there may be someone ready to take advantage of you. > I urgently needed to > make a call and after I dialed the number, I was connected to an operator [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > on to a preferred signal but you can get someone else's analog signal, there > may be someone ready to take advantage of you. Ahh, the good ol' ARN- the "American Roaming Network." They're still around, charging something like $5 per call and $3/minute. They also offer prepaid calling-card service now- $25 buys you 100 outgoing minutes usable on any unactivated analog phone. (Incoming service is unavailable, of course.) -- "I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003 Just divorce him and you'll both be happier. -Frank > and apparently customer service at Verizon, too.:rolleyes: > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > View this thread: http://www.wirelessforums.org/showthread.php?t=26753 > http://www.wirelessforums.org > Any detectives want to help me figure this out? Thanks in advance! I agree that it would be best just to ask your husband. My guess, however, would be that they're payphone charges. Dennis Ferguson For you to be feeling the need to scrutinize phone records, is all the ammunition you need. Sounds like time for a heart to heart. Good luck > and apparently customer service at Verizon, too.:rolleyes: > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > View this thread: http://www.wirelessforums.org/showthread.php?t=26753 > http://www.wirelessforums.org |
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