Fraudulent billing scams often use existing legitimate online directory listings, calling to either claim you "agreed" to their own listing of your business, or even calling to claim to represent a directory you did list with. It may be an indicator that this "salesman" is really not even with ATT, but with some fake business directory running a common fraudulent billing fraud, These scams are not only known to pretend to be "ATT", pretending you are "renewing an existing contract", but practically always call AFTER allegedly a year of "advertizing" has already passed.Ĥ) He might be with some third party marketer selling ATT advertizing, using a fraudulent pitch that you already "agreed" to it to close the "sale" and earn his commission or bonus through fraud.Īt this point you don't really know WHO this caller is, regardless of what he claims, and ANY call demanding money without an invoice identifying what it is for, is suspicious on its face. In fact, they might be telling you what they want you to believe, either to make a "sale", or as a "con".ģ) His "warning" that this is a "one time offer" is also suspicious, as it aims at a goal of steering you toward payment without proof you even owe anything. Instead, they try to talk around such verification, which is suspicious if there is actually some "contract". His verbal statements do nothing to verify you actually agreed to anything. It is no substitute for whatever you may or may not have agreed to in writing, and ATT is savvy enough to know about written contracts. Even you were surprised at this, and yet this "salesman" had a ready made answer to deal with your suspicion, which itself is suspicious.Ģ) What some salesman tells you has nothing to do with any binding contract. The salesman's claim that they don't call to confirm a firm order, over "less than $100", is just too conveniently fitted to the alleged circumstances. Allegedly, they have, not "$100 per month" at risk, but the full, now disputed "$1140", which isn't even good business. What you are describing has multiple indicators that you might be dealing with one of these frauds.ġ) It would be surprising if ATT would bill after a year, rather than in advance for the following year, as that is not generally how Yellow Pages advertizing is done. They even commonly pretend to be "the Yellow Pages", or even "ATT Yellow Pages". First of all, make sure you are actually dealing with "ATT", as there are many scam oline business directories making false claims for "advertizing fees", and they usually make them AFTER the claimed advertizing has been supposedly run.
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