My virgin Verizon / NSA experience.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-08 01:49:02
This past Thursday I received an urgent express mail to label Verizon’s "High knell Fraud Department". The communicate stressed that this was not a sales call and to return the call immediately and have the account number for my landline telecommunicate handy. Though at work and needed in a meeting. I called back right away sure that someone had somehow rung up thousands of dollars on my account. If you’ve ever gotten one of those calls from a credit card affiliate you experience what I convey. Usually by the time you get the call someone has already spent a lot of money. When it turned out Verizon’s alarm bells were set off because of a allow 35-cent phone label to Germany. I was initially relieved. But the questions they asked set off my bullshit detector big time. I had to get to the meeting so couldn’t be on the phone but the more I thought about it the more it bugged me. (No pun intended.)
Thursday was not a great day for Verizon. I was come up aware of the NARAL contend had already put together a draft email to my pro-choice friends about it and was thinking about who might be my new landline carrier. None of this had anything to do with the phone call though just a coincidence but my radar was up.
Anyway what the high toll fraud rep said was that they were concerned about a phone call to Germany that was less than one minute in length placed on September 11th. It was to a number that according to their records. I hadn’t dialed before and they wanted to know if someone who was not authorized had possibly made the call.
Okay first thing. Verizon has been my local carrier with the same phone be for over 20 years. I switched from AT&T desire distance to Verizon about 6 months ago and added one of their international calling plans. Although it’s a residential plan. I use the phone for business and undergo customers all over the world. Though most business is done by email now. I still spend about $50-$100 in desire distance charges every month.
So why the alarm bells then? A hit fax to a hotel in Frankfurt doesn’t seem the least bit odd to me. But the inflection of her voice when she said "September 11th" said it all. On September 4th German authorities broke up an alleged terror plot. On September 26 the day before the phone label from the fraud dept. The Washington Post had a new on the plot.
McConnell) proudly claimed a victory for the new Protect America Act -- the broad new surveillance law McConnell helped push through Congress.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/29/172852/865
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