Complaint / Review
Cingular Wireless
Charged $1,229.59 for early cancellation after being told it was not early cancellation

I received a letter from Medcah, Inc, a collection agency saying I owed $1,229.59 for a delinquent account from Cingular Wireless.

My daughter opened a Cingular account in my name without informing me several years ago. I did not sign for it and did not know for several months.

My daughter went to a Cingular kiosk May, to change our phone company to Verizon and the Cingular employee informed her that she could change her phone without penalty as her contract ran out the middle of June. She waited until the end of June and cancelled the contract.

Medcah (the collection company for Cingular) said the contract did not run out until October. The Cingular employee deliberately gave my daughter false information telling her the contract ran out in June.

All of these business transactions were under my name and I knew nothing of the transactions. Have never signed my name to any contract.

The first I knew about the cancellation was when I received the letter from Medcah, Inc., the collection agency.

So now, I am paying $50.00 monthly payments to Medcah from my social security income. Since I am 79 years of age, ruining my credit would not matter much but I do have a pension from Boeing that could be attached.

I suppose I can blame my daughter for witholding information but that would not change the facts. The Cingular charges were turned over for collection so what can I do?