DISH NETWORK/ AFNI FRAUDULENT BILLING/ CREDIT THREAT BLOOMINGTON Illinois

If you didn't do it, get an id theft police report, got to the ftc and get a fraud affadavit get it notarizied (spelling sorry) and show proof of where you lived. Talk to the collection agency and ask them how to file fraud. Ask them when it happened if they have an address where the bills were sent to. Don't just sit there. Be proactive and protect yourself. Put a fraud alert on your credit file. If someone stole your id, then they may have done it for more than just a tv bill, may be a phone bill or what ever as well. See if they have a date of birth on file or a ssn...

The bill could have just went to the wrong person. Maybe there is someone out there with your name and had dishnetwork and mailed it to you. Check your credit report to see if it is on there. If it is on your credit file, then file fraud with afni and get it will be deleted off your credit file. Make sure you get the letter in writting that it was closed under fraud and keep it forever not just seven years!

Theresa,

You still don't get it. The burden of proof is NOT on the consumer/"debtor" to prove that they do not owe the money.

The entire burden of proof is on the creditor/collector. This is the way it works.

Therfore you don't have to prove where you were at what times, etc. That is a waste of time and an un-needed expense.

I bill collectors for my time. Then I put them in collections.

Only AFNI claimed that I had a cable bill from 1993!

Send them a dispute letter telling them that this is not your debt, and asking for validation. (I received another collection notice for Worldcom, with contact dtails including a telephone # of 555-1212, now WHO has a 555 number except those in the movies? LOL)

Chances are, once you dispute this you'll never here from AFNI again. Good Luck!

Call them and speak to them - get all the details you can - there are ways to verify where you were at certain times and prove that you did not have their services.