Check out an earlier case of worldcom long distance resale sending out bills they can't collect. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/0610/064.html "Ring of Thieves" by Neil Weinberg, 06.10.02 Ring of Thieves by Neil Weinberg A former MCI billings manager sits in a federal prison, convicted of crimes he said he learned to commit while working for his former employer. this one resulted in 600 million write off in 2000

I have a $132,000 bill for an $4k/mon oc3 that was installed less than a year ago.

I have a $77,000 bill for UUNet bandwidth -- one months billing, according to them -- for a 9meg ds3.

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Bill Woodcock wrote:

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> Remember, this is just the beginning. Do you remember you WCOM bills for > services that you had canceled years ago? That will come out as well...

Heh, just today, I received a bill from WorldCom for $75,097.30, for nothing in particular, that I can discern, which they claim to have been the unpaid accumulation of some monthly service from May, 1999 through the present. Um, yeah, right. :-)

-Bill

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