I received a cal from this company too, same idea "Lower Your Long Distance Bill" and every time I expounded on the answer was told to answer yes, no or correct. I think am going to call Verizon and ask them what I can do to stop this kind of fishing bait switch calls from my phone.

After being called by "Long Distance America" I told them I wanted to verify their validity first. They got off the phone very quickly. I called verizon and was told that Long Distance America is not a company that they work with as a long distance provider, and not to communicate with them under the assumption that it was a legitimate claim.

Call today and put into voicemail.  When listened to message they made it sound like they were calling from my electric company but I have had so many of these kinds of calls I was immediately suspect.  Trying to trace owner of the number, I came across this site.  Interesting, are they now switching electric?

Fell for this scam. There is no savings on this plan unless you stop making long distance calls. Called Qwest and put a freeze on my long distance account. If these rip-off artists call, hang up or tell them not to call you and put your number on the "do not call list."

I got the call today and got to the verifier.....i verified one question then got a funny feeling in my gut that something wasn't right and i hung up!  I hope they cant do anything with the one yes.....  At one point rap music came on and the guy said "oh, dont mind the elevator music"  .....They said they were from online services to change my verizon bill!

i think i work for this company lol. i trained with judy today. my first week but judy has been there 3 years and is one of the best there. i am trying to find out if they are ripping people off but i don't think they are. just trying to get you to change long distance providers. it is a sneaky script tho and i hate it. we do call a lot of older people which makes me wonder tho.

Called about lowering my qwest long distance rate, gave me the wrong amounts i'm paying now, tried verifying personal data. Told him to give me the offer in writing...he hung up on me.

A man called from this number stating that he was going to lower my qwest bill because qwest was unable to match competitor discounts and that my bill would be cheaper as to heighten customer satsfaction. Sounded pretty suspicous so I checked it out online and FRAUD....not to mention the fact that he messed up and said verizon like six times so I told him I didnt think it was legit. He then stated that in order to verify this I was to say yes to 5 questions for some operator. He then transferred me to an operator who had no idea what she was doing, so I told her no....and hung up....

They called me and told me that they were from Verizon and that they would lower long distance rate by $10 per month using a new long distance carrier.  Fast talking and I was in a hurry to get rid of them.  The first bill I received after the change, there was $13.90 of long distance charges and an additional $40+ from Verizon becuase I disrupted the bundle package I had with Verizon.

they really are a bunch of scamming a**holes!!! the reps, verifiers, supervisors, managers, everyone in there!! I hope they shut that building down asap!!

just so you know it does take 30 days to add you to a no call list if you dont want these calls call the national do not call list the num ber is 888-382-1222 it prevents any sales rep that does not have an existing account with you from calling you

TO ALL: If you do infact get this and DONT want to have LD AMERICA or any other similar LD company to take over your Long Distance, Call your Local Service provider, they will be able to apply a PIC/LPIC (primary inter-exchange carrier/Local Primary Interexchange Carrier) FREEZE which will freeze your LD Carrier to the current selection. Another cool thing most people are unaware about; most local service providers also have a SLAM process, where they are able to reverse changes made to a LD carrier if it was done without your permission. There is a time limit on that however, generally 48-72 hours depending on your phone company.
All in all...if you are worried about a call like this, just call your phone company.

just wanting you all to know...it for surely is a scam...I work as a verifier for this and other companies...believe it or not the verifier is on the customers side!! the representative...(the one who calls you) is the bad guy...the one they transfer to (me) is going through everything they should have told you and making sure you understand...and most of the time customers are just saying yes because that is what they told you to do...more often than not the customer isn't even listening to me and just saying yes...every call I get i want to tell them to hang up and I love it when you do!! the reps are mean and don't care who they lie to!! they even tell elderly people who are too old to authorize change...they tell them to lie about their age so they can recieve the discount... i really hate doing it but until i find a different job i have to do this...EVERYONE WHO READS THIS AND GETS A CALL LIKE THIS JUST SAY NO AND IF ANYONE EVER TELLS YOU TO JUST SAY YES DON'T DO IT!! THINK OF IT THIS WAY...WOULD YOU SIGN ANY KIND OF CONTRACT WITHOUT REALLY UNDERSTANDING IT? DIDN'T THINK SO...TELL YOUR GRANDPARENTS TOO!!! and if it makes a difference to anyone...I'm sorry...get me another job and I'll quit tomorrow!!!

they called saying they would help me lowering my rates and i agreed. what can i do i need help

I just received a call today from some guy who claimed he was calling from "an independent company working in conjunction with AT&T" which "will lower my phone bill for long distance rates". Being foolish, I listened to what his so-called long distance services had to offer and I said, "uh huh...okay...yes...oh i seee". After that, he tried getting me to go through that 6 step verification process where I had to say "YES" to 6 questions and I knew something was just not right, so I quickly hung up on him without going through that voice automated third party process. Am I safe?!?! I know this is a SCAM!

these people have been calling me for the past 2 months until like 10 at night so today i decided to finally answer my phone and of course my dumb a** was like oh yeah sounds great until i googled this long distance america crap when i tried to call and cancel the 1800 number they gave me was out of service... go figure but at&t was nice enough to help me to put a block onto my long distance services so they won't be able to get into my account

Long Distance America called me last week - I was skeptical but willing to save money.  The operator was exceptionally nice and said that Qwest had hired them as a sub-contractor to save money for low use customers.  I am NOT a low-use customer.  I verified I could change back to my old Qwest plan if I wanted to and she assured me I could.  I did change but something was just wrong about this.  So I called Qwest and it is a HUGE scam.  A lawsuit is actually pending.  And I did some math, my LD bill - instead of going down 40% would actually have increased by 200%.  Qwest has switched me back with no problem.  If this happens to you - call your phone company IMMEDIATELY.  Seems like the folks that work there know it is illegal but think they are doing good by saving you money.  However in many cases - they are NOT and they LIE to get your business.

Called saying they wanted to speak to me about my Verizon account. I hung up on them.

Some guy called me and said that they are lowering my rate.  He gave me a speal about lowering my long distance calls from 10 cents to 6.9 cents a minute.  He then told me that they have to verify my information by transferring me to a "data operator" of which was not entitled to answer my questions so he asked me if I had any.  I said "No."  He then gave me a speech about all the questions they are going to ask me and that I should answer yes to every one of them because if not they are going to drop the line.  After I agreed he seemed to have transferred me because the traditional waiting music began.  Apparently, he couldn't here me because after a few moments of that he asked me multiple times if I was still on the line, of which I plainly answered Yes, I'm here, I can hear you, I'm still on the line.  He continued to ask me this as if he couldn't here me and then he hung up.  

If that wasn't a suspicious call, I don't know what is.

I received a call from these people. They wanted to lower my long distance per minute charge from what I was paying now from Qwest. Problem is, we don't use Qwest for our phone service. This is clearly a rip-off.

asked "is this a business?" when I answered with the name of my business. "Oh I'm sorry we'll take you off the list." That's fine...

IT's a scam. They try to get you to answer yes to questions so they can use it as proof that you answered yes to have them handle your long distance. In the normal process of willingly transfereing your long distance,  a third party gets on the phone and asks several question that you must answer yes to, to prove that you are willingly giving permission to have your long distance switched to this other company. In this fraud instance "The Phone Company" also know as "Long Distance Services" tricks you into say yes several times then lays over your yes to the "Real" question as their proof that you wanted them to switch your long distance service to them.

Another method is that you plainly think Verizon is lowering your long distance so you willingly say yes.

They called at 11:15AM 07-12-2008. Announced themselves as "THE PHONE COMPANY." I told them they were NOT my phone company. Place me on your DO NOT CALL LIST. The caller them said she was with PUBLISHER'S CLEARING HOUSE. I asked, if she was with PCH, why did she claim to be with THE PHONE COMPANY. A male responded, "I am the supervisor. What seems to be the problem?" I told him so far his company has claimed she was THE PHONE COMPANY and PCH. Was she lying the first time or BOTH TIMES? He said she might have said she was with PCH to get my attention. We are THE PHONE COMPANY, Long Distance America. -Is this Mr. Meese? -Are you with AT&T???" I told the caller they "did LIE BOTH TIMES.  My PHONE COMPANY has my records and knows who I am.  Place me on your DO NOT CALL LIST.  Their reply was "We will. But it takes our computer 30 days to delete you. I replied, You call me again and you will be paying Federal fines and treble damages!"  {CLICK...}

They called at 10:15AM 07-18-2008. Announced themselves as "THE PHONE COMPANY." I asked them what phone company? the man said "Verizon". He said "We want to lower your long distance charges to .10 ten cents a minute" I said that is was already .06 six cents a minute. He said that he was from verizon over & over again. I asked him my address and he could not come up with it.

These fucters called me.  Claimed they were AT&T.  They said that AT&T had just purchased a new long distance company.  They said they were going to lower my rates.  They tried to verify my address, but they got the city wrong.  When I corrected her, she acted like she was pronouncing it wrong.  Then, they gave me some phony numbers that AT&T was going to lower for me.  They, then, proceeded to ask if I was at least 18 to accept the change!!  I said, "Why do I have to accept, if you are going to change it for me??"  ...  She hung up.  BI4CH!

Same as everyone else.  Rude telemarketer calling claiming to be Long Distance Services offering to lower our business rates with AT&T.  Rude woman tried to verify my information and when I asked to be removed from their calling list, she asked me if I was an idiot for not wanting to save 45% in this economy!  Told her no I am not an idiot, you are and so is the company you work for.  Apparently today is the day for all the mental midgets to flood the office with telemarketing calls.  And since I am a business I'm fair game for these morons.

I just recieved a call from my "phone company" stating that they had made an agreement with ATT to lower my long distance rate.  I told the lady that she cant just switch me and asked for her supervisor.  This guy came on the phone and I told him his practices were illegal and his company, long distance america, was misrepresenting itself.  He said this was just an offer to switch LD service.  I told asked for his name and he said, "you want my name, my name is Good Bye"  If anybody gets this call, ask to speak with Mr. Bye, he is a real charmer.

got the same call and the guy claimed to be a third party verizon hired out. he said he can lower my bill by $10/month. i asked him how come verizon won't call me themselves and he said they cannot lower my bill that's why he called. i asked him what process is he going to do in order to lower my bill. he said he will transfer me and just say 'yes' to the other operator. at that point, that threw a red flag. i got this scam phone call from work before and the guy asked for my name and very simple questions that i say 'yes' to. in the recording, they claimed that i said yes to a phone service which cost my work $100. anyhow, if anybody calls that you don't know of, don't say 'yes'. just hang up!!

CAn somebody give me any ideas what should I do if I already accepted their offer? It's been about two month, nothing happened, but still, I'm concerned.

I just got a call from Long Distance America similar to other folks on this report.  They almost got me because I accepted, but immediately did some online research and thankfully I found this site. So I explained the situation with my phone company and put a freeze on my long distance service.  It was comical, yet expected that when I called to cancel this Long Distance America scam/crap service, they provided a confirmation number that sounded like it was pulled out of their a**.  Moreover when I asked for a name, I was given Joe and was told that I didn't need his last name.  I can't believe this so called company is still around (they must be operating as some subsidiary co.). If you're reading this post, whatever you do, DO NOT sign up for this crap.  If you have already, call your phone company and put a freeze on your account, if it isn't too late.