I opened up an AT&T cell phone account in Jan 2010 with a so called broker. He calls his company Captain Ron & Associates.
He used my social security number to open this account. Twice in a 4 month period my phone was shut off. He always told me that he would take care of it. In May of 2010 I decided to drop AT&T and go back to my original provider. On June 8th I get a call from Southwestern Credit telling me that I owe AT&T $1500 for my cell service. It turns out that Captain Ron opened 4 additional cell accounts under my name and social security number and never paid any of the bills. All of the bills were sent to his post office box and I never had a clue what was going on. I called AT&T and told them the situation and their fraud dept says that it is not fraud because I gave him my social security number. If this is not fraud, I dont know what is! I have found out since this happened that I am not the only victim in the Detroit area. I place an ad on craigslist and found at least 10 other people that were scammed just like I was. This Captain Ron needs to be behind bars and AT&T needs to learn the definition of FRAUD.