Just got my credit card statement and there are three charges and one
> credit from Parlino Bertrange LU. Looking that up on the web says it
> is a VOIP phone company. I've never knowingly done business with them
> -- does anybody else have any stories about them?
I had this happen a few years ago. Some voicemail company showed up on my phone bill. It was quite a hassle to get it off the bill. I think there's now some way to tell your POTS provider to not accept charges from any other company. There was a recent article in the SF Chronicle about a similar situation. See
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Harold[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: On my cellular phone bill we discovered that a company known as 'M-Qube' was charging me $9.95 _per month_ for a 'subscription' of some kind; it had gone unnoticed for several months until I got a chance to look at the bill personally, at which point I called Cingular Wireless and they took it off the bill; they never could explain what it was supposed to be, but they did credit it back. PAT]