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Woman Faces $9,100 Verizon Bill For Data She Says She Didn't Use (dslreports.com)

A Verizon Wireless customer says she received a bill of $9,100 for hundreds of gigabytes of data usage which never consumed. The woman told the Cleveland Plain Dealer she was on Verizon's 4GB shared data plan, and like any normal person, the bill of $8,535 from Verizon for consuming 569GB of data in a matter of few days doesn't compute well with her. The problem, as DSLR reports, is that when she tried to find out what caused the data usage, Verizon website told her "the activity you are trying to perform is currently unavailable. Please try again later." She couldn't and switched to T-Mobile, after which Verizon charged her a penalty of $600.

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  1. A link to the real article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Instead of the crappy DSLReport blurb - http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2016/09/verizon_data_overages_other_ch.html

  2. Re:sue first by networkBoy · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's how I resolved my dispute with Chase bank when they did some seriously underhanded sh!t.
    I told them that they were trying to get blood from a turnip as I would rather burn my money and go insolvent.
    They threatened to sue me, and I replied with: "Please do, I dare you to find a jury that will take your side on this".

    After that my interest rate was 0.00000% till my balance was paid.

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