Saturday, June 12, 2010

Bill Collector's Recorded Threat To Blow Up Their House Over $300 Cell Phone Bill Forces Couple To Move 500+ Miles Away, Says Verizon Customer

Inside Edition reports:
  • A New Mexico couple has been living in fear ever since receiving a terrifying phone call."I'm going to blow your [expletive deleted] house up," said the caller. The threatening call is allegedly from a debt collector calling about a $300 cell phone bill! "It was scary, very scary," says Al Burrows.

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  • Burrows called Verizon, and he says he was shocked by their response. Burrows tells INSIDE EDITION, "He said to me, 'You might as well tell me to turn on the TV, that aliens have landed if you expect me to believe a story like that.'" But Burrows says he had the voicemail as proof. He and his family found the incident so upsetting they moved over 500 miles away to Denver, Colorado.

  • Attorney Jim Sherr is representing the family. "Recording the conversation is evidence that you cannot dispute, it's there," says Sherr.

For more, see Family Says They Were Terrorized by an Overzealous Debt Collector.