[ SECRET POST #2620 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2620 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[My Mad Fat Diary]


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03.
[Stargate Atlantis]


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04.
[Andromeda]


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05.
[True Detective]


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06.
[Samurai Flamenco]


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07.
[Star Trek: DS9]


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08.
[Supernatural]


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09.
[Wild Adapter]


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10.
[The Bletchley Circle]


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11. [ns]


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[Junior Prom - Prelinger Archives Video]


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Scams and frauds

[tasogare_n_hime]

Never found out exactly what was going on, but about a year after my older brother died we got a call from a collection agency saying that the phone company he'd had his cellphone service with had sent in a complaint that he wasn't paying his bill. This was a shock to my parents, because they had, had all his accounts and everything else closed and taken care of about two weeks after he died. Getting in contact with the phone company my mother was told my brother had renewed his contract with them after he had been dead for several months.

Eventually we at least got things sorted out with the collection agency, who were very professional about the whole thing and apologized profusely about what had happened. They then warned us that this phone company(I honesty don't remember which one it was or I'd give everyone a heads up. This was nearly 13 year ago, and I've never had a good memory at the best of times.) had done things like this before, and we might get a call from another collection agency. This was a yearly event for the next three fucking years, until they finally quit.

We never found out if there was some identity theft going on, or something, or if this phone company was just being massive douches to a grieving family.

Re: Scams and frauds

[(Anonymous)]

It wouldn't surprise me if it was the company simply refusing to cancel the account because they probably figure they can squeeze just a little more money out of people by making closing an account as dufficult as possible. Your brother's death probably wasn't a factor in their actions, they likely just had an across the board policy.

I've heard that AOL was notoriously hard to cancel. They'd say "Yes, of course! Your account is now closed!" but wouldn't actually do it. People would either have to cancel the credit card the account was linked to or call up pretending to be their own next of kin and claim the account holder died (at least they'd respect that as a good reason for cancellation).