Verizon California
Charged for lifeline phone never used, now debt collectors calling

Verizon started sending me ever increasing bills and I realized there was something wrong! I had requested the lifeline service only. I qualified. Then came a bill with 2 pages of. 35 cent charges. Then a verizon repair man appeared saying he was replacing the entire line to my address, he commented that he wondered how I could ever even make a call with all the static on the line. Well, I never used the phone, it was for emergencies, my boss' pregnant daughter was staying with me in Sept. 2004 when I first got the service, she was only there a month. The phone sat in the corner, I never used it. I have a tracfone.

Then I tried the Verizon DSL, but my computer wouldn't run the program, too small a processor. They didn't want to discuss it, I paid all but the last 2 "lease" payments because one afternoon I talked to a nice verizon lady that said they should have cancelled the contract if I couldnt even use the service.

I was billed for calls to Oregon, I don't know anyone in oregon. At one point a rep took all of the 35 cent calls off of the bill, then a Meadow Olssen said I had to pay it and tacked the 135 or so amount back on.

They say I owe 400.00 dollars and some odd cents. I thought I had the lifeline service at 5.65 per month. I even paid most of the dsl which I never once connected completely or used. Verizons lack of attention to this detail tells of their mega corp malevolent attitude.
Now I have debt collectors calling me incessantly for this rip off bill.

I refuse to pay a bill I did not incur. They ignore me. I ignore them.

But I would like for the debt collection people to know that the account they keep calling me about is a fraud and they should leave me alone.

Company: Verizon California
Country: USA
State: California
City: Mission Hills
Address: P.O. Box 9688

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