Received our SBC phone bill and found an unknown charge from Integretel Inc. Billing for Agora Solutions for a "one-time setup charge for voice messaging". It would appear Integretel is a contract house that does billing for a number of other ripoff companies.
When calling SBC, they had no knowledge of either company. Their rep said that federal regulations allow third parties to charge amounts like this on your phone bill. Long distance companies do this regularly. I contacted Integretel whose automated system put me directly through to Agora Solutions. Their rep said my wife signed up for some sort of voice messaging via internet.
My wife has no knowledge of this nor has ever heard of either company. Furthermore we have no need for service like this as we use an answering machine. The Agora rep said the "service" would be cancelled but refused to refund the setup fee.
I called SBC back who said they would bill the amount back to Integretel. The SBC rep cautioned me that Integretel or Agora Solutions could try to bill me directly though. This has scam written all over it.
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