I had received a letter in the mail today from this collection company called Afni, Inc for a Charter Communication bill totaling 628.15.
I was baffled because I knew I hadn't run up such a bill with this company so I proceeded to call their toll free number to get more information. The lady I spoke to stated that I had an account with Charter back in 2000 and that they were attempting to collect the debt from me for charges that occurred at this time. For one, I knew I never had an account with Charter before 2007. For another, I was 16 back in the year and I know from my previous customer service experience that a company such as Charter Communications does not provide service for individuals under the age of 18.
The scary thing is, this lady read off my whole social security number to me stating that it was the one provided for this account. Needless to say with all the cases of identity theft in this country these days, I was pretty freaked out. Next she named off the address that was listed for the service provided and I had never lived at such address since I was residing with my parents at the time attending high school.
My immediate thoughts were that this company might be a rip-off trying to collect money fraudulently and I came across this website showing that there are hundreds of other people who are having the same problem as I am with this exact credit collection agency. They need to be stopped, this is ridiculous and people don't need to deal with the stress of having such fraudulent things on their credit record.
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