ILD Teleservices Inc.

I received the monthly bill from our phone service provider, Qwest (which is a different company than the long distance provider) and discovered long distance charges (at .15 cents a minute) from a company I did not recognize, ILD Teleservices Inc. I called to inquire about the long distance services because I've been using Sprint at .5 cents per minute for long distance and for our 800 number for our in-home business. I was told that my husband authorized the switch to ILD . . . he assured me he did not authorize anything (I handle all phone set-ups, changes, etc. and he would never have authorized a change). I told ILD to discontinue their long distance service and I would be reactivating my account with Sprint. I called Sprint and it's not that easy to switch back. I had to fill out a form from an email and fax it to Sprint and it could take days to get the account reactivated. I'm told until this can happen I could be billed by random long distance providers since I don't have a long distance provider at this time. The charges could run $2.00 to $8.00 per minute! So I called my phone service provider, for the 4th time today, and had to pay $5.00 to insure that my long distance will be through Sprint but they couldn't make that happen right away - it would be 4 days. Who knows what charges will accrue by then, and all of this the fault of ILD Teleservices whom we never authorized to use in the first place! I did some research and the person responsible for the ILD Teleservices scam is David Stein. He’s been sued no less than 3 times by the Federal Trade Commission. There are numerous complaints posted at: www.consumeraffairs.com