SBC, ESBI And ROCTEL My SBC telephone bill for January 2006 has an attachment ESBI Privacy Plus Voicemail Monthly Fee of $16.12 for ROCTEL for 0 minutes.I did not have any knowledge and consent on above voicemail services requested from ROCTEL. San Antonio Texas

Call the customer service number on your SBC bill, tell them you want the charges removed and ask for the corporate office number. Tell them you are concerned about any company being able to charge your SBC account and tell them you want the situation monitored. Good luck.

Once this company gets your information, they have the right to pass it along to anyone they deem needs it. You will end up with all kinds of email spam offers, telemarketing calls and who knows what else. Read the sad truth for yourself at the end of my post.

I looked and found no connection to Residentialvoicemail.com and Nationwide Voicemail, which both have now been proven to use no phone number in their domain whois, the same host for their domains and same domain companies. It seems this Roctel is running the same voicemail scam, but not connected to the other two known crammer companies who are getting a LOT of reports filed on them recently.

Other references I could find online to Roctel is the same stories as the before mentioned companies on this site. You go to an innocent looking website and fill out a survey, send someone a card, get freeie music or screensavers. The next thing you know you get an email from one of these 3 companies thanking you for signing up for their voicemail service which will be charged to your phone bill.

Don't give out your personal information on websites. That is how they are connecting your email address to your phone number and billing you for things you didn't ask for. If you are getting something for free on their site, they have no need of your phone number or anything more than a nickname. Protect yourself when online as best you can so these bad companies can't take advantage of you.

Here is their privacy policy:

Privacy Plus VOICEMAIL SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: December 27, 2005

Privacy Policy

Privacy Plus Voicemail ("Privacy Plus", "us" or "we"), has created this privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") in order to disclose our information gathering and dissemination practices. We understand the importance that Internet users place on privacy and have designed our service with this in mind. Privacy Plus is fully committed to 100% permission-based marketing. You agree to this Privacy Policy, in its entirety, when you: 1) access or use our website located at www.roctelcorp.com and RocTel Corp m(the "Website"); 2) agree to receive e-mail from us; and/or 3) obtain, or attempt to obtain, Privacy Plus services at a website belonging to a Privacy Plus affiliate.

This Privacy Policy will address the following:

1. What information this Website gathers/tracks about you.
2. What this Website does with the information it gathers/tracks.
3. With whom this Website shares the information it gathers/tracks.
4. This Website's opt-out policy.
5. This Website's policy on correcting and updating personally identifiable information.
6. This Website's policy on deactivating your name from our database.

If you are a resident of the State of California and would like to opt-out from the disclosure of your personal information to any third party for marketing purposes, please email us at service@roctelcorp.com.

Information Collected:

Registration

Upon registration, users may be required to provide some or all of the following information:
1. Name
2. Gender
3. E-mail address
4. Address
5. Zip code
6. Home Phone
7. Date of Birth

Privacy Plus creates internal reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for our advertisers and partners. Privacy Plus may include your personal information in our reports. This information allows our third-party advertisers to deliver, and our users to receive, more relevant advertisements.

Privacy Plus reserves the right to transfer and/or sell aggregate or group data about Privacy Plus users for lawful purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes the demographics, usage or other characteristics of Privacy Plus users as a group without disclosing personally identifiable information. By submitting your personal information to, and/or using, the Website, you agree to allow Privacy Plus to transfer and/or sell such aggregate data to third parties.

IP Addresses

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Website. Your IP address is used to gather broad and specific demographic information as well as for validation purposes.

Cookies

We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password so that you do not have to re-enter it each time that you visit our Website (if you choose), and for other purposes.

Sharing of Information:

We use the registration data that you supply to personalize your experience with the Privacy Plus service and for verification purposes. The personally identifiable information that you submit to Privacy Plus remains your property, but by submitting that information to Privacy Plus you grant Privacy Plus the right to use that information for marketing purposes. We may sell our user information and/or join together with other businesses to bring selected opportunities to our members. Privacy Plus is able to offer its services to you, in part, based on your willingness to be reached by our third-party advertisers. By allowing Privacy Plus to make the information you supply available to these third parties, you will receive free information on products and services that may be of interest to you. This information may also be shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We also use contact information from your registration data to send you information about Privacy Plus and to keep you informed of our other products and services that may be of interest to you. Please keep in mind, though, that Privacy Plus does not control, and is not responsible for, the practices of our third-party advertisers. Your contact information is also used to reach you, when necessary, regarding issues concerning the use of our service. If you wish to stop receiving future communications from us, please see the Opt-Out/Unsubscribe section below.

By submitting your e-mail address at the Website and/or obtaining services from us, you agree to receive e-mail marketing from Privacy Plus and our third-party advertisers. In addition, you agree that such act constitutes a purchase, an inquiry and/or an application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule, 16 CFR 310 et seq. ("ATSR"). Notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed on the Federal Trade Commission's Do-Not-Call List, Privacy Plus retains the right to contact you via telemarketing in accordance with the ATSR. Moreover, by registering with, or requesting information from, a third-party advertiser at or through the Website, such action shall constitute a purchase, an inquiry and/or an application with the respective third-party advertiser for purposes of the ATSR and you may be contacted via e-mail, direct mail and/or telemarketing by such third-party advertiser in accordance with the ATSR.

Privacy Plus reserves the right to release current or past user information: a) in the event we believe that the Website and/or the Privacy Plus service is being or has been used in violation of the Terms of Service or to commit unlawful acts; b) if the information is subpoenaed; or c) if Privacy Plus is sold or acquired. Moreover, you hereby consent to disclosure of any record or communication to any third party when Privacy Plus, in its sole discretion, determines the disclosure to be appropriate including, without limitation, sharing your e-mail address with other third parties for suppression purposes in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, as amended from time to time.

Other Websites:

This Website may contain links to other third-party owned and/or operated websites. Privacy Plus is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Additionally, marketing partners provide certain components of our service. Some of these marketing partners may require the transfer of some or all of the registration data you supplied to Privacy Plus. When necessary, Privacy Plus provides this information to our marketing partners. In some cases, you may be able to make a purchase through one of their third-party websites. In these instances, you may be required to provide certain information, such as a credit card number, to register or complete a transaction at such website. These third-party websites have separate privacy and data collection practices and Privacy Plus has no responsibility or liability relating to them.

Third-Party Offers:

Privacy Plus provides you with the opportunity to receive special offers products and/or services from other third-party companies. To receive such offers, products or services, your personally identifiable information supplied to us during the Privacy Plus registration process will be shared with such third-party companies, so that they may provide their product or service to you without requiring that you first fill another registration form.

Third-Party Newsletter:

With your subscription to Privacy Plus you will receive a complimentary copy of the Privacy Safety Newsletter via email. You may unsubscribe from the Newsletter at any time by emailing service@roctelcorp.com. Any grievances to the Newsletter regarding misuse should go to abuse@roctelcorp.com.

Security:

All collected information is stored in a technically and physically secure environment. Furthermore, access to this information is strictly limited, and not accessible to the public. Our employees are dedicated to ensuring the security and privacy of all Privacy Plus user information.

Minors:

Visitors under 18 years of age are not permitted to use and/or submit their personal information at our Website. Privacy Plus does not knowingly solicit or collect information from visitors under 18 years of age. Privacy Plus encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate and monitor the interactive activities of their children.

Opt-Out/Unsubscribe:

To stop receiving future communications from Privacy Plus , please send an e-mail with your Login Name and e-mail address to service@roctelcorp.com. To unsubscribe from our service, please send an e-mail with your Login Name and e-mail address to service@roctelcorp.com.

Changes in Privacy Policy:

Privacy Plus reserves the right to change or update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a notice at the Website that we are changing our Privacy Policy. If the manner in which we use personally identifiable information changes, Privacy Plus will notify its users by posting the changes on the Website. The user's continued use of the Privacy Plus service and/or continued receipt of Privacy Plus e-mails constitutes an affirmative acknowledgement and acceptance by the user of the modified Privacy Policy.

Contacting the Website:

Our "Contact Us" page contains e-mail links that allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments that you may have. We read every message sent in and endeavor to reply promptly to each one. This information is used to respond directly to your questions or comments.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of Privacy Plus, please feel free to contact us at service@roctelcorp.com.