Today in the mail i received a letter for the first time from afni stating they were trying to collect a debt that was owed by my son for the amount of $1257.79 for phone bill thru verizon.
I tried for several hours to contact afni and all i received was a busy signal, so i called verizon communications to see what was going on and if i could get a better understanding at to what this was all about. I was informed from verizon that there was phone service at a previous address that we lived and there was a bill for $1257.70.
I proceeded to tell her that there is no way there was a bill in my sons name at that address he was only 9 yrs old at the time. I was told i needed to get ahold of afni to discuss this account further because verizon sold the account to them so they couldn't help with anything more.
My son who has lived in michigan for 10 yrs now and was 9 yrs old when living in Ohio did not authorize anyone to open a phone account in his name and how would this be possible? Is it not standard to use a social security number to be able to open an account and wouldn't they be able to find out this number belonged to a child?
But here he is 19 starting his college career trying to get fiancial assistance and has this on his credit report or assuming it is there i will further check into that as well to see if it is on his report yet, that may cause him to be denied for a loan to help pay his college and that isn't fair to him to deal with.
I am going to continue to call daily if i have to sit and hit redial over and over again until i can reach someone to help him with getting this taken off his credit report.
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