Getting charged for foreign phone calls

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[z3n]

"Does your online girlfriend live in Canada or Mexico?"

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[moovova]

Haven’t had that problem with our Verizon acct...yet. Fingers crossed.

[Pontiac]

It used to happen to me when I lived on the shore of Lake Erie and my cell would connect to the strongest cell tower signal which could be a Canadian Cell Tower 60 miles away.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

If I travel to Canada from California and you call me there will it be billed as a call to Canada?

[bgill]

This isn’t a texting plan.

[JonPreston]

I wouldn’t pay. Also, my phone is set up where I can’t call out of country. When I leave America on business, I bring a burner.

[bgill]

It was 867. The “unpublished” came from me doing a search for the number to check if it had been previously reported as a scam number.

[higgmeister]

Usually it is upper management at the phone co you have that creates shadow companies to bilk huge amounts of money. They got caught in the 80's, ( back when we were still citizens), now we have zero consumer protection. I fact it is usually politicians who are in on these scams

now I expect someone to jump in and say "prove it"....LOL ! thats exactly how they get away with it, you can't prove anything, and even if you could there is nothing you can do but just pay up and change phone companies constantly

Prove what?   You have described nothing to prove or disprove.   Try to describe the process that you think high up phone company executives and politicians do or did to bilk huge amounts of money.

Back in the eighties AT&T was by far the dominate phone company even after the Modified Final Judgement and Court Ordered Divestiture.   What did AT&T or Bell System executives get caught doing?

[Bob434]

pay in chickens, or goats or something-

[bgill]

What? The US has borders?

I’m in TX.

[bgill]

Maybe I’ll ask hubby but 5000 miles is taking a long distance relationship to the extreme.

[bgill]

Aren’t they the ones who told us all to register our numbers so we wouldn’t get scam calls? That worked so well.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I use an app on my Android cell phone called “should I answer”. It is free and funded only by user donations, has no ads. It is pretty impressive. It blocks 95% of all junk calls except the ones that spoof my local area code.

It works in multiple ways but the most interesting way and probably the most effective, is that they want you to answer junk calls to verify that they are indeed junk calls and then you punch in that it is a junk call and it goes into a National Database that they maintain and it blocks it from everybody who uses that app. So every time someone else gets a junk call the number that called them gets blocked for you also. It makes a huge difference in the number that can get through. It’s also got some other features of course

[sappy]

i’m just telling you what’s out there. use it or don’t.

[KTM rider]

they created fake long distance ‘phone carriers’ so that when you make a long distance call, the “outside carrier’ would charge outrageous amounts like $3 a minute, then it would appear on your bill, and when you call to dispute it they would say,”we have no control of what they charge” when it was actually the corporate execs who created these fake carroers

[higgmeister]

It used to happen to me when I lived on the shore of Lake Erie and my cell would connect to the strongest cell tower signal which could be a Canadian Cell Tower 60 miles away.

That is wonderful.   There must have been an inversion that made a perfect corridor to bounce the signal between the water surface and the inversion layer.   I love nature and God's creation.   Anthropomorphic Global Climate Change my fat bottom.

[KTM rider]

the info is still readilly available, common knowledge, I assumed everyone was paying attention and knew about this, but here is a 2 second search just the tip of a huge iceberg of info that has been pretty well scrubbed clean;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_slamming

I say something people dont want to believe and instead of having paid attention throughoutthe years they will just say "prove it" like "honey wheres my keys" instead of just looking themseles

[Hot Tabasco]

Does your cat or dog have access to your phone at night when you’re asleep?

[TexasGator]

“There it is. I can’t prove anything. It’s just my word.”

That is what you get when you ask for advice on the internet. Always some sourpuss nothing off.

[Made In The USA]

Sounds like fraud if it you haven’t called any Canadian area codes, and the telco should remove it. If they refuse - don’t hesitate for a second to contact the State Public Service Commission and file a complaint.

I’ve been out of telecom for a few years, but I assume there is still call records that can be looked at that detail originating and terminating details. If the telco is robotically saying no to you (they’re being LAZY), a PSC complaint should wake them up.

Good luck