[RVRoadie]

My Verizon cell phone bill had a $20 charge for two premium text message subscriptions. When I called Verizon they told me that I had to text 'stop' to 41933 and 23687 to stop the charges, which I did.

They said these type of charges usually come from taking a quiz or survey on social networking sites. My wife does use Facebook and MySpace, but doesn't recall ever agreeing to any subscription, or even posting her cell phone number. It may be that anybody can use your cell phone number to start a subscription.

Verizon couldn't (or wouldn't) tell me who was behind these numbers. They did offer to block this type of service from all of my cell phones, which I did. I didn't ask them for a refund when I called because I hadn't yet talked to my wife.

I have filed a complaint with the Florida Attorney General and given them the two text numbers that Verizon gave me.