Grandmother's Cell Phone Bill $10,000 To Adult Chat Line
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Posted: 7:19 PM Aug 27, 2008
Grandmother's Cell Phone Bill $10,000 To Adult Chat Line
A grandmother is fighting a wireless bill of more than $10,000 that was boosted by six weeks of calls to an adult chat line.
Reporter: Dave Jordan
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A Charlotte grandmother is fighting a wireless bill of more than $10,000 that was boosted by six weeks of calls to an adult chat line.

Opal Savage told The Charlotte Observer she's not responsible
for the calls. Verizon Wireless has said in correspondence to
Savage that the calls were made from her phone.

Savage said she bought the phone for her two grandsons, both
teenagers during the period in 2006. The two have sworn they didn't
place the calls, and Savage notes that most of the calls originated
between 15 and 30 miles from their Clinton home and that some of
the calls overlapped in time.

Most of the calls went to Secret Encounters, an adult chat line
based in Granada.

Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.


Latest Comments

Posted by: Gary Location: Edenton on Aug 28, 2008 at 11:10 PM

Blame it on the kids. Grannies need loving to. LOL
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Posted by: s thorne Location: morhead city on Aug 28, 2008 at 10:10 PM

im naming my baby mike rose. the end!!
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Posted by: chickie Location: belhaven on Aug 28, 2008 at 03:07 PM

this is why when you bought yout phone you were told to put the box up for safe keeping. if they have the box ( the serial number is on the outside of it) then it's easy to do. this isn't the first time i have heard of this happening.
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