Capital Billing Service Readers Distribution Center I received a bill from Capital Billing Company stating I owe 1,098.90 and threatened that if I don't pay it will effect my credit. I never requested any magazines from this company nor have I received any bills until this notice. Los Angeles California

         A couple weeks ago I recieved a letter in the mail from a Capital Billing Service stating that I owe $1,098.90 to a Readers Distribution Center. When I called them, I stated that I had no idea where this bill had come from or why I had recieved it. in response, they told me that I had signed up for a magazine subscription that had not been paid for the last two years. Not only did I not sign up for this subscription but I had not recieved any other bills prior stating that I owed anything.

         When I tried explaining this to them, they tried to tell me that my information had been stolen and that if it wasn't me who singed up for them then someone else had used my information to do so. If this was the case then why hadn't I recieved any other bills? I told them that I was not going to agree to pay them because I  believed I was not responsible for the bill. I had no idea the account even exsisted. 

         I was then informed that if I did not pay the balance, it would permenantly effect my credit report. So I asked them for an address at which I could send payments because I of course don't want my credit score to fall. When they provided me with the info, I took it upon myself to look up the address and location of the facility I would be sending my hard earned money to. Only to find out that the location doesn't even exsist, giving me closure to the fact that this was in fact not my own doing and that I was being scammed.

         I am not and will not pay this company money, they need to be stopped. I dont know where they got my info or why they are charging tons of hard working people hundreds of dollars but all I know is that I will not put myself out of pocket the $1.098.90 they are demanding from me.

Thank you,

Deanne Stevenson