NCIC Phone Scam

I was scammed, twice, by Network Communications International Corp. (NCIC).

Here is how the scam works. My wife was in town and she couldn’t find a working pay phone, even tough she had plenty of spare change. So she made a collect call to me that lasted maybe, 30-seconds.

It went like this:

My wife: “I just got out, come pick me up at the same place.”

Me: “OK.”

Click.

For that NCIC charged me $32.85 cents. There were two calls made from the same area, we didn’t know by the second time, because we had not received the phone bill. So we have another $32.85 cents headed our way. The bill also claimed that the phone call was 6-minutes long! Oh, really?

Also, there was no warning what the cost of those collect calls were going to be. Not at the phone booth or by the operator handling the calls.

My phone co. told me I had to call them and try and get the charges either lowered or canceled. That didn’t go so well, I was still charged $9.80. They discounted only $23.03 cents.

After that experience, I went online and found that this company has been doing this for as far back as seven years!

No wonder they will not repair the public phones. They are hoping that people like my wife will make collect calls. And before you ask “why not get cell phones?” Because I really have no need for the extra expense. I really hate to be called anyway, I can just imagine myself going nuts with a cell phone on me. LOL! This is not the issue.

The issue and the question here is why has this company been allowed to do this for so long? Especially with all the gripes I found online, and all true; as I can see that most of the experiences are just like ours.

Anyone else for more regulations? How about another 10 government agencies? This is why I have always been against government regulation. Government regulations hamper use as individual citizens and gives us a false sense of security. What has the FCC been doing here? Downloading porn? Like the SEC agents?