{"id":347,"date":"2006-05-24T22:39:39","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T03:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2006-05-25T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T16:39:53","slug":"verizon-gives-free-gift-to-customers-their-phone-numbers-to-credit-bureaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/24\/verizon-gives-free-gift-to-customers-their-phone-numbers-to-credit-bureaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon gives &#8216;free gift&#8217; to customers &#8211; their phone numbers to credit bureaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>(via IP)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>According to a Boston Globe article, Verizon is giving out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/personalfinance\/articles\/2006\/05\/21\/verizons_free_gift_to_customers_giving_payment_data_to_credit_bureaus\/\">customers payment information to the big 3 credit bureaus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman described it as &#8216;a free gift to the public&#8217;, and then said it was thought up by their bill collection department as a way to spur customers to pay on time.<\/p>\n<p>The swellest part of the &#8216;free gift&#8217; is that (even if you&#8217;re paying them for an unlisted number!) your phone number shows up on the credit reports.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, Verizon customers, bend over and get your free gift!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via IP) According to a Boston Globe article, Verizon is giving out customers payment information to the big 3 credit bureaus. A spokesman described it as &#8216;a free gift to the public&#8217;, and then said it was thought up by their bill collection department as a way to spur customers to pay on time. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}