Verizon sent fraudulent account to collections

angiew1024

I was a victim of identity theft two years ago. Someone used my personal information to open an account with Verizon. I worked with verizon to verify that the account was fraudulent. I got a letter saying that they verified it was fraud and that they would remove it from my credit information. Skip ahead two years later, I just got a letter from CBE, a collections group saying that I owe money on the account. How could this have happened? Do they not keep records of what accounts are fraud. Why am I still being held accountable for something that was fraud? I tried calling verizon, but I can't seem to find the right people to talk to. I'm extremely frustrated since this was supposedly handled two years ago!

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Hi angiew1024,

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