Newbie
Posts: 3 
April 11th, 2005, 01:06 PM
After the Tsunami hit the South East Asia, Aliant Telecommunications in Canada declared Free Calls to South Asian Region for one month -- a very good advertising approach! People would think the company is so great that they tried to help the South Asian people by letting them talk to their relatives in Tsunami affected South Asia for free of cost. But nobody knew that was a part of fraud scheme designed by Aliant and Primus Telecommunications, their other fraudulent partner.
Aliant Telecommunications was breaching their own Security & Privacy Terms for a long time and disclosing their customer information to Primus for a small sum of money. Primus was enabling their Long Distance Call Services for Aliant local call customers silently without any consent of the customers with the help of dishonest Aliant technicians and corrupted management.
However, Local Call Subscribers of Aliant who took the options to call free to South Asia are now getting huge bills from Primus. Suddenly the customers are notified that they were subscribed to Primus International Call Services without any notice. Since most of the subscribers are from South Asia and students who are affected by the fraud scheme by Aliant and Primus can't afford to hire lawyers as it would more costly than paying the illegal bills.
In fact, government agencies don't like to help these people as they are well bribed by the large companies every month. So, it appears the people should be aware of these kinds of issues themselves and be careful about fraud advertisements.
After the Tsunami hit the South East Asia, Aliant Telecommunications in Canada declared Free Calls to South Asian Region for one month -- a very good advertising approach! People would think the company is so great that they tried to help the South Asian people by letting them talk to their relatives in Tsunami affected South Asia for free of cost. But nobody knew that was a part of fraud scheme designed by Aliant and Primus Telecommunications, their other fraudulent partner.
Aliant Telecommunications was breaching their own Security & Privacy Terms for a long time and disclosing their customer information to Primus for a small sum of money. Primus was enabling their Long Distance Call Services for Aliant local call customers silently without any consent of the customers with the help of dishonest Aliant technicians and corrupted management.
However, Local Call Subscribers of Aliant who took the options to call free to South Asia are now getting huge bills from Primus. Suddenly the customers are notified that they were subscribed to Primus International Call Services without any notice. Since most of the subscribers are from South Asia and students who are affected by the fraud scheme by Aliant and Primus can't afford to hire lawyers as it would more costly than paying the illegal bills.
In fact, government agencies don't like to help these people as they are well bribed by the large companies every month. So, it appears the people should be aware of these kinds of issues themselves and be careful about fraud advertisements.
More corporate greed and coruption the whole world is infected with 
Bright Spark
Posts: 334
Location: Toronto
Location: Toronto
April 11th, 2005, 03:19 PM
i would suggest that ppl do call, there are alternatives than paying a bill that u have been unfairly billed
you can get some information here:http://consumerinformation.ca/app/oca/ccig/main.do?
i would suggest that ppl do call, there are alternatives than paying a bill that u have been unfairly billed
you can get some information here:http://consumerinformation.ca/app/oca/ccig/main.do?
Newbie
Posts: 3
April 11th, 2005, 11:48 PM
Aliant said they can't help the issue as the bill came from Primus. But they can't even answer properly how their own Local Call Subscribers becomes International Call Subscriber of Primus without any agreement. Aliant get a fat commisson of the total bill you know.
Support Lines of Primus remain always busy with overloaded calls..after trying a few hours it can be reached sometimes where a Chinese girl speaks who don't know English very well, appears she reads some pre-written texts with a threat that they are going to call Collection Agency if the bill is not paid within two weaks.
Aliant said they can't help the issue as the bill came from Primus. But they can't even answer properly how their own Local Call Subscribers becomes International Call Subscriber of Primus without any agreement. Aliant get a fat commisson of the total bill you know.
Support Lines of Primus remain always busy with overloaded calls..after trying a few hours it can be reached sometimes where a Chinese girl speaks who don't know English very well, appears she reads some pre-written texts with a threat that they are going to call Collection Agency if the bill is not paid within two weaks.
