# Ymail.com, AT&T and third party billing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ymail-com-at-t-and-third-party-billing/501900>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 4, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ymail-com-at-t-and-third-party-billing/501900 "2009-07-04T15:59:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 4, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ymail-com-at-t-and-third-party-billing/501900/1 "2009-07-04T15:59:18Z")

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My AT&T personal phone bill is getting slammed with invalid, fraudulent, third party billing.

AT&T are quite nice about correcting the errors.

AT&T has traced these to [invalid names]@ymail.com.

They say that even though my account has third party billing blocked several are somehow getting through anyway.

They say that many senior citizens who don’t even have a computer are getting billed for an odyssey streaming radio monthly fee.

We are cooperating with AT&T and the state Public Utilities agencies who investigate these things.

Have you heard of this? Do you have any additional ideas as to how to stop it?