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Advice Needed for Unauthorized Credit Card charges by difficult child
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 605464" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Oh this is so familiar to me. At 12 my difficult child did the same thing only it was wracking up charges on my phone. He became almost addicted to calling people and they were all long distance numbers! Back then we couldnt have unlimited long distance. I had 3 months of very high bills...almost 2 grand in total. The people at the phone company were trying to help me stop him too. When the first bill came in I always took the physical phone with me when I wasnt near it. He went to a friend and asked them if they had an old one we could use because ours was broken. They gave him one. I never saw it so I was astounded when there were more charges the next month. So the phone company and I blocked my phone from dialing any long distance calls or 900 numbers. We didnt think about the 800 number that allowed a person to call through that and bill it to the phone. Okay...next month we blocked all 800 numbers. Then he figured out he could call 0 and the operator would make the call for him. At that point the phone company locked down my phone so hard that the only numbers that could be called were local and 911. It stayed that way until I cut my home phone off. I was forced to pay the bill because I had to have a phone due to my job. I just would have let it go to collections and ignored it if I hadnt been forced to have a home phone. </p><p></p><p>In your situation because it is a credit card and that really is considered fraud, do you think a bit of a scared straight approach might reach him? I would consider having a cop talk to him about exactly what charges he could be arrested for. Might work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 605464, member: 1514"] Oh this is so familiar to me. At 12 my difficult child did the same thing only it was wracking up charges on my phone. He became almost addicted to calling people and they were all long distance numbers! Back then we couldnt have unlimited long distance. I had 3 months of very high bills...almost 2 grand in total. The people at the phone company were trying to help me stop him too. When the first bill came in I always took the physical phone with me when I wasnt near it. He went to a friend and asked them if they had an old one we could use because ours was broken. They gave him one. I never saw it so I was astounded when there were more charges the next month. So the phone company and I blocked my phone from dialing any long distance calls or 900 numbers. We didnt think about the 800 number that allowed a person to call through that and bill it to the phone. Okay...next month we blocked all 800 numbers. Then he figured out he could call 0 and the operator would make the call for him. At that point the phone company locked down my phone so hard that the only numbers that could be called were local and 911. It stayed that way until I cut my home phone off. I was forced to pay the bill because I had to have a phone due to my job. I just would have let it go to collections and ignored it if I hadnt been forced to have a home phone. In your situation because it is a credit card and that really is considered fraud, do you think a bit of a scared straight approach might reach him? I would consider having a cop talk to him about exactly what charges he could be arrested for. Might work. [/QUOTE]
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