RIPPED OFF BY MCI?
If you have been ripped of by MCI in the State of California on Collect Calls received from Correctional Institutions, I ask you to please sign this petition. I was recently scammed into signing up w... continue reading »
"MCI has a long and not pretty history of price gouging not only through the long distance service they outright claim to "provide" but through their numberous subsidiary companies. Every prison phone contractor I have researched has turned out to be owne"
"Please stop ripping families of inmates off with ridicilous prices. "
"Stop these illegal and unethical business practices, NOW!"
"MCI has ripped me off one time with a huge phone bill that wasn`t mine. Then they have the nerve to call me three years later and want me to switch over to them and can`t take no for an answer. These people should be put out of business."
"I'm tired of the big rip off myself. it's about time someone does something to make MCI cease and desist these overcharges."
"My husband is in prison in Florida. A 15 minute collect call from him is in excess of $20.00 including the tax. This is high way robbery! MCI and the DOC in Florida, that share the profits, should be ashamed."
"STOP THIS OVER CHARGING........"
"This has been such a blatant and ongoing problem that I refuse to use ANY service provided by MCI or its subsidiaries. Fortunately my calls are no longer processed by MCI and I can once again receive calls from my husband."
"The charges for prisoners to call their loved ones is in fact, a horrible rip off. Try doing that to regular MCI users and see how drastic your client list drops. This is an issue regarding every state in the USA. Ripping people off seems to be somethi"
"Phone charges overall are extremely high. A system should be in place where prisoners may call family and friends at normal calling rates. Discriminating against prisoner's families should be against the law just as any other kind of discrimination is al"
"I have had the same problem with MCI but about the false advertising. They promised me one thing and then when I didn't get it I called to ask why. They said "I'm sorry you were told that but un fortunately we have no such program" They seem to do this so"
"It is the reponsibility of the CPUC to assure compliance of Telephone Service Providers with the rules and regulations set for them. I ask you do your job!"
"Totally agree. "
"I not sure as to whether or not I've been ripped off butthe charges for these calls are out-rageous. "
"In 1999, I was charged for a for a 2 week period on 2 seperate bills, I tried to straighten it out for 4 months, they kept saying my crdit would appear on my next bill, it never did. I was then told I had to call my local phone company to get it fixed an"
"I'm intersted to know more."
"I too called on the disconnects and was told it was my fault because I accepted the collect calls. I told her, yes I accepted the calls because i wanted to talk to my husband. He didn't hang up on me, we wanted to talk to each other. The employee came bac"